Japie’s previous experience includes, inter alia:

• Assistance to a financial services regulator with investigations into possible contraventions of the Exchange Control Regulations.
• Investigating various allegations of fraud, corruption and financial irregularities at a large parastatal operating in the energy sector. The allegations involved various aspects of the client’s business and operations, on a national level, ranging from procurement fraud, payment fraud, conflicts of interest, collusion, favouritism, etc.
• Investigating allegations of fraud at a client operating in the telecommunication sector. Allegations involved procurement irregularities and certain contraventions of legislative requirements.
• Investigating allegations of procurement and Human Resource recruitment irregularities at a large mining client operational in Botswana.
• Investigating allegations made against a high profile individual at a large government institution operating in the tourism industry. Allegations involved procurement irregularities, contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act, and favouritism.
• Anti-money laundering (“AML”) and sanction contravention investigations. Following AML control failures, Japie performed heightened transaction monitoring of an international financial institutions United Arab Emirates branch to identify potential suspicious/high risk transactions.
• Investigating irregularities relating to the theft of coal by a coal handling facility providing services to large parastatal operating in the energy sector.
• Investigating allegations of corruption at a large government institution. Allegations included undue influence by employees as it pertains to the recruitment and selection process, as well as travel processes and procedures.
• Investigating favouritism allegations at a large state owned entity. Allegations involved potential collusion between the employer and suppliers as it relates to accommodation services provided.
• Investigating allegations made against a high profile individual at a large government institution operating in the tourism industry. Allegations ranged from procurement irregularities to favouritism of suppliers.
• Investigating allegations of procurement fraud / irregularities at a government entity operating in the mining sector.
• Investigating large scale corruption at an international mining group’s operations in South Africa. The allegations included, inter alia, favouritism, conflict of interest and tender irregularities.
• Multiple FCPA and UKBA Anti-Bribery and Corruption compliance reviews. These assessments were done as part of pre-and post-acquisition due diligences, or as part of heightened monitoring by clients following deferred prosecution agreements.