GPOC not sure if torched safe was ‘inside job’

Nov 04, 2009 News

Following the torching of the safe at the Grove Post Office on Sunday night, and the unsuccessful attempt on two others, the police are yet to question anyone in relation to the incident.
At this time also, the management of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is not sure if the attack was an ‘inside job.’
Chairman of the GPOC, Bishop Juan Edghill, told Kaieteur News yesterday that although the police have not taken anyone into custody; it is too early for the board to make a definitive position on the matter.
Bishop Edghill explained that the corporation is fully cooperating with the police force, while its own security service is doing separate investigations.
Meanwhile, as it relates to the ongoing issue between the GPOC and the 19 postmasters, Bishop Edghill said that the union has not contacted them as yet, and as far as he is aware that no industrial action has been taken by the workers as yet.
However, yesterday staff at the GPOC office in Robb Street received a fire scare around 11:15 hrs.
A press statement from the GPOC yesterday stated that an unusually strong scent akin to that of carbon or burning tyres was experienced by those present at various sections of the Guyana Post Office Corporation building on Robb Street Georgetown.
As a precautionary measure staff, officials from other departments, tenants and customers were asked to evacuate the building. The Fire department was summoned and arrived at 11:35hrs to conduct an inspection of the building space that was left open.
According to the GPOC, nothing out of the ordinary was reported and the ‘green light’ was given for persons to return to the building.
“The safety of staff and customers is always of paramount importance to the Corporation and it continues to do all in its power to ensure that all necessary measures are in place to ensure the safety of persons using the building,” the statement noted. All of these events have occurred at a time as investigations continue into a $1 million fraud in which 19 postmasters and a number of staff members of the Finance Department at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are implicated.
And as if that was not enough, it was revealed at a press conference on Monday by Bishop Edghill that several other cases of fraud have also been discovered.
The GPOC Chairman pointed out that the bulk of the fraud was discovered at the Grove Post Office.
According to Bishop Edghill, the postmaster at the Mahdia Post office and not Grove Post Office as was previously reported by this newspaper was found to be short of over $900,000.
He is currently under investigation, and his family has commenced repaying the money. The postmaster at the Mabaruma Post Office was reportedly found with more than $1 million short.
According to Edghill, this postmaster prepared a transaction that was fraudulent. When this was discovered, the postmaster located the money and destroyed the documents to cover his tracks. In this regard, the GPOC Chairman said that his services have since been terminated.
At Port Kaituma as well, the postmaster was found to be more than $1 million in the red. Meanwhile, the dishonesty continues to unfold within the corporation as it was found that postmasters were paying NIS November vouchers ahead of time.
It was even found that the postmasters pay vouchers for persons that are dead.

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