PwC Australia scandal: $27m river modelling contract referred to audit body

PwC holds a $775,000 three-year contract to audit the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has written to PricewaterhouseCoopers seeking assurances that confidential information contained in audit and river modelling contracts worth more than $28m has not been shared.

PwC holds the $775,000 three-year contract to audit the MDBA, ending on 30 June this year. It was also awarded a major contract to streamline river models on to a single platform.