A FORMER Southern Water engineer has been jailed for corruption.
Anton Cristofer Colev, 35, of Kalgoorlie, was found guilty of corruption in business by a jury in the Supreme Court in Hobart last month.
The charge related to a pipeline duplication project at Margate for which Colev was a project manager.
Four companies submitted tenders for the Southern Water project in March last year, ranging from $800,000 to $1.7 million.
Colev met a representative from the lowest bidder, Spectran, after the tenders had closed, told them they were the preferred tenderer and encouraged them to lift their price from $800,000 to $1.3 million.
He told the company to include work which was being done by Southern Water and to include a fixed price on other work to save him the trouble of assessing its scope.
Spectran submitted a revised bid after the final deadline had closed.
Colev then allegedly removed the next lowest tender from a tender box along with Spectran's original tender, replacing it with their revised bid.
Two other tenders -- priced at $1.4 million and $1.7 million -- were left.
Colev was a member of the panel which subsequently selected Spectran as the winning bidder, the court heard.
Soon after they were informed of their success, Colev sent Spectran an email seeking a cash payment of $10,000 as a first payment for what he called "consulting work".
Justice Helen Wood sentenced Colev to 12 months in jail, but suspended the final eight months of the term on the condition he be of good behaviour for two years.
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