Six people have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office for alleged corrupt behaviour involving road maintenance contracts in South Auckland.
Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook
The SFO alleges two former employees of Broadspectrum - previously known as Transfield - received bribes in exchange for awarding road maintenance work to subcontractors between 2015 and 2018.
One of the former employees faces three charges of obtaining by deception and 12 charges of accepting gifts by an agent.
The other employee faces four charges of accepting gifts.
Four subcontractors, who were awarded the work, face charges including giving gifts and obtaining by deception.
The five defendants appeared in Auckland District Court this morning, did not enter pleas, and were given interim name suppression.