464 laptops stolen from Auditor-General

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464 laptops stolen from Auditor-General

The Auditor-General of South Africa (Agsa) says that 464 new laptop computers valued at R5.1 million have been stolen from its Pretoria headquarters.

 

[marine1]

Stolen or sold by corrupt people there?

 

[biometrics]

From one building?!

Furk me!!!

 

[bullzeye.za]

R11,000 per laptop. What are the AG offices using for work machines?

 

[marine1]

R10,000 per laptop. What are the AG offices using for work machines?

Alienware All they do is play games anyway

 

[greg0205]

R11,000 per laptop. What are the AG offices using for work machines?

^ This. Anyone here ever been into a government department were the machines seemed any faster than a fifteen year old P2?

 

[BeVonk!]

This story has a serious foul smell about it. No frikkin way do you steal so many laptops from one building without staff noticing. No heck ... something is very wrong here.

 

[ponder]

Did they audit it?

R11,000 per laptop. What are the AG offices using for work machines?

You obviously have no idea how government tenders work. What you buy for R10 the gov. buys for R50, everybody gets a cut and the tax payer foots the bill.

 

[gregmcc]

It wouldn't surprise me if they never received the laptops on the first place and are now just saying they were stolen. The laptop contact probably just went to some comrade.

 

[Bosvark@]

It wouldn't surprise me if they never received the laptops on the first place and are now just saying they were stolen. The laptop contact probably just went to some comrade.

Lol, but so true.

 

[BeVonk!]

The lowest bidder won ... and met the specs of so many this and so much of those ... but the tender didn't actually state anything about assembly and delivery. The boxes with unassembled parts per spec may be laying in a warehouse somewhere.