Senior officials at the Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company Limited have confirmed that an investigation is ongoing into a $14M fraud at the entity.
Kaieteur News understands that two former staff members are at the centre of the probe.
According to reports, the fraud involves banking of company cheques and cash.
“There is such a fraud and we are investigating it,” said a senior official of the company who was contacted by this newspaper.
The official disclosed that the two employees fingered in the fraud, a Senior Clerk and a Junior Supervisor from the company’s Accounts Department, have since been dismissed.
“Since the discovery of the fraud we have terminated the services of the two staff, and as soon as our internal investigations are completed, we will hand it over to the police,” the official explained.