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Netcare – KPMG breached client privilege to boost Competitions Commissions probe

Chris Bateman

Abstract


Private hospital giant Netcare claims that its former auditors, KPMG, cynically breached client privilege by sharing detailed information they had obtained from Netcare with the Competitions Commission – after silently agreeing to help the Commission with its probe.


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Chris Bateman, HMPG, South Africa

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Keywords

Client privilege; Netcare; KPMG; Competitions Commission; Operation Kotov

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South African Medical Journal 2014;104(6):395-397. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.8438

Article History

Date submitted: 2014-05-08
Date published: 2014-05-12

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