Article: New scandal over defence contracts; Parliament agrees to DA request for probe.(News)

BYLINE: LOUISE FLANAGAN

A PRETORIA business is challenging a R142 million military contract to check valuable assets which did not go out on tender but was given to a company linked to the defence official who awarded it.

The contract was awarded to a company run by directors linked to Origin Exchange Consulting, which won another dodgy defence contract in June.

The businessmen of both companies share an office address with the Department of Defence official in charge of awarding the contracts, Mthobisi Zondi, head of defence supply chain integration.

Both contracted businesses are accused of having no track record of relevant ...

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