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Criminal charges have now been filed against the former National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) employee implicated in the multi-million dollar fraud uncovered at the agency.
Attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, who represents former NSWMA special project manager Mark Rodney, says this was revealed in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Court this morning.
Rodney is scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow.
Champagnie says investigators from the Financial Investigation Division did not reveal the charges against Rodney.
But he says he expects that Rodney will be charged under the Corruption Prevention Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Champagnie says the next move will be to make a bail application on behalf of his client.
Yesterday Champagnie filed a writ of Habeas Corpus in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Court to compel the police to charge or release his client.
During a hearing this morning, investigators from the Financial Investigation Division informed Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey that Rodney had been charged.
Local Government Minister Noel Arscott announced in Parliament last week that the $160 million fraud was discovered after a forensic audit of the NSWMA’s accounts for the financial year 2011-2012.
Attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, who represents former NSWMA special project manager Mark Rodney, says this was revealed in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Court this morning.
Rodney is scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow.
Champagnie says investigators from the Financial Investigation Division did not reveal the charges against Rodney.
But he says he expects that Rodney will be charged under the Corruption Prevention Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Champagnie says the next move will be to make a bail application on behalf of his client.
Yesterday Champagnie filed a writ of Habeas Corpus in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Court to compel the police to charge or release his client.
During a hearing this morning, investigators from the Financial Investigation Division informed Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey that Rodney had been charged.
Local Government Minister Noel Arscott announced in Parliament last week that the $160 million fraud was discovered after a forensic audit of the NSWMA’s accounts for the financial year 2011-2012.