Safaricom has sacked 52 employees suspected of involvement in fraudulent activities in the year ended March.
The number is 16 more than the 36 it sent home the previous year.
“While the number of investigations carried out during the year was substantively the same as Financial Year 2016, the number of staff dismissed for fraudulent behaviour increased to 52,” Safaricom said in its latest sustainability report.
The rise in the number of those sacked is attributed to new and stringent measures that helped bust previously undetected syndicates in the period under review.
“This was primarily due to an enhanced review process, which targeted a single area of concern and unearthed fraud schemes that were previously concealed,” the report says.
The number of employees suspected of crime and investigated rose to 33 compared to 31 a year earlier during the same period.
