Who will audit the auditors who audit the auditors?
South Africa faces
an age old problem with regulation;
South
Africa's financial services regulator is carrying out an internal audit
in response to allegations that its former chief financial officer
extorted money from a local business by threatening to scrutinise its
books.
The Financial Services Board (FSB) said Dawood Seedat, who
was its CFO for more than eight years, stepped down shortly after local
media reported the allegations two weeks ago.
Media reports said Africa Cash & Carry had paid Seedat
12 million rand ($1.12 million) so that he would not shut the firm down
through audits by the FSB and the Revenue Service.
The wholesaler paid in different tranches and the final instalment of 2 million rand was secretly filmed, the reports said.
Gives new meaning to
regulatory capture.
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