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Paul Harris, a former Cricket South Africa (CSA) board member, believes the organisation must undergo a forensic audit in order to fully exonerate chief executive Gerald Majola of financial impropriety.

"The auditors have been kept away from the process," Harris, who is a former chairman of the remunerations committee, told Cricinfo. He also claimed that CSA has lost money because of bonuses paid to Majola and 39 other staff members after last year's Indian Premier League (IPL).

Harris, together with Colin Beggs, former chairman of CSA's audit committee, and Professor Hentie van Wyk, former chairman of CSA's finance committee, issued a statement disassociating themselves from the findings of the board's internal commission of inquiry to look into bonus payments.

The investigation, run by CSA vice-president AK Khan, was tasked with looking into R4.7m in bonuses paid to staff of which Majola received R1.8m.

The commission made its findings public this week and cleared Majola of all charges of wrongdoing. It found that he made an "error of judgement" by not disclosing his bonus to the remunerations committee (REMCO), but that this was in line with precedents set
in past non-CSA events and said it would put processes in place to make sure that all future payments are fully disclosed.

It also instructed Majola to pay back R28,169 for travel costs incurred by his children. Harris, Beggs and van Wyk were among the people who made submissions to the commission.

The three claim that they "requested to the see the report before it was made public on several occasions", according to Harris, but they were not provided with a copy. They have still not seen the report and said they have had to "rely on press reports in regard to the findings and board decisions".

The trio have still not seen the full report but are "dismayed at the press reports of the decision taken" and believe the board was too hasty is letting Majola off the hook.