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Otago District Health Board's former chief information officer has been charged with corruptly accepting a $750,000 inducement from a local businessman.
Michael Andrew Swann, 45, and another man who has name suppression appeared yesterday in Dunedin District Court to face a corruption charge relating to an inducement totalling $757,684.
Swann also faces separate charges relating to alleged fraud at the health board involving millions of dollars.
The second man was yesterday charged in relation to giving the money to Swann as an inducement for Swann to give him favourable treatment regarding business dealings with the health board.
Both men were remanded on bail to reappear in court on September 11.
Swann, along with business associate Kerry Harford, were charged in June with dishonestly using invoices to obtain pecuniary advantage between August 2000 and August 2006, with sums totalling just under $16.9 million.
The charges followed a seven-month investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
Harford, 46, a surveyor, of Queenstown, is a director of Sonnford Solutions.
Otago DHB chief executive Brian Rousseau has in the past alleged that, during a six-year period Sonnford Solutions received $16.51 million from the board for "payments related to purported maintenance and software licence agreements" of the hospital's computer system."
- NZPA
