SWAZI MED E1M FRAUD - FIRED EMPLOYEES IMPLICATE BOSS

MBABANE – The six fired employees of Swazi Med Centre say their boss should also be fired. The boss who is wanted out is Ogochukwu Mbachu, the company’s Operations Manager.

Among other things, they allege that even though they confessed to have taken money belonging to the company, it was way small than the E800 000 that was reported to have been stolen.
According to information reaching the Times SUNDAY, one of the employees stole E13 000 which was paid by one of Swazi Med Centre customers (pharmacy) while the other one allegedly stole E16 000 in cash. This totals to E29 000.
So the two are wondering what happened or who stole the rest of the money?

Furthermore, the fired employees were also accused of stealing stock worth over E170 000,  something which they have countered by claiming that Mbachu owns three pharmacies around the country which meant he should have been investigated as well for the loss of the drugs.

The fingered former Swazi Med Centre employees further alleged that there was stock worth over a million that was ordered by SwaziMed and paid for but it never reached the warehouse.
“We have also been told that he owned three pharmacies but one eventually closed because it had outstanding debts with SwaziMed Centre. We suspect that the stock that was not eventually delivered to the warehouse was allegedly diverted to his two pharmacies,” said one of the fired employees.

Responding to comments made by their former boss to the effect that he (Mbachu) started smelling a rat after they (fired employees) started living an expensive lifestyle.
Responding to his former employees allegations, Mbachu said: “To my knowledge, SwaziMed Centre has never ordered any stock that never reached our warehouse. The employees had nothing to do with ordering of medicines or approval of payments. Drugs are ordered by the pharmacist in charge of buying of medicines through purchase orders or invoices.”

He then explained that the payment of the drugs was processed by him (operations manager) either through EFT or SWIFT transfers through the bank. He mentioned that such also required the signature of at least two of the company’s directors to process payment by the SWIFT transfer.
He also stated that at present, one of the directors had been working for Swazi-Med Centre as a Credit Control Manager for over a year now, and, he had access to the company’s bank statements and accounts to query any suspected transactions.

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