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Dec 24, 2015 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Government commissioned forensic audits into a number of state-owned agencies. The preliminary reports of some of those audits are out.
The public is expecting fireworks because the public was led to believe that there was massive corruption taking place under the PPPC. The failure of the APNU/AFC government to produce evidence of illegal conduct under the PPP administration is making the PPP look good, especially since the government is yet to get a grip on the economy and their Ministers are being burdened with running bureaucracies when they should be dismantling these structures.
The cost of the forensic audits are said to be about $133M and counting. By the time it is finished those audits will cost more than the monies they will recover. Yet we are now told that there is need for the matters investigated in one instance by forensic auditors to be handed to the police to investigate further.
There is a need for the government to explain just what is meant by forensic audits. If these audits are forensic in nature, then these audits should have traced all the monies that were missing, determine who was responsible and compile the evidence, if any, of criminal actions. There should be no need for the police to investigate further.
There will be a need for the police to prepare the matters for possible prosecution
How can the police be asked to investigate further? That is not the work for the police. The forensic auditors should be recalled and told to gather the necessary evidence including statements. That is the work of forensic auditors.
The revelation of the government therefore that it intends to send certain matters to the police looks like window-dressing. It also appears as if the government has succumbed to public pressure over its failure to prosecute anyone for the alleged crimes of corruption which it, the ruling coalition said existed.
The public is asking about the action that is being taken by the government. The public is not inventing anything; they are simply asking questions based on what the government said it had uncovered.
It was said that tonnes of gold were unlawfully exported from Guyana. The matter was supposed to be under investigation. Where is the gold? If it went to the United States, will that country be asked to return the gold? What has happened to that investigation? Why have the forensic auditors not been called in for that one?
The government said that persons were taking fuel illegal from GUYOIL. The government actually gave persons the opportunity to repay the monies? What has happened to this case? How many persons have repaid. Since the public was told that persons took petrol illegally, then they are entitled to be told what has happened to the investigation. This should not be state secret.
The government then said that it was investigating a possible $100 fraud in a government ministry. We are told that the file is with the police again. Why were the forensic auditors not called in to investigate these matters?
Persons were sent on administrative leave pending audits. We have not heard anything about the outcome of these audits and whether any persons fingered were afforded the opportunity to offer explanations before the audit reports are dispatched to the government
This is seven months that the government is in office and all that we are hearing is about wrong doing, forensic audits and now having to call in the police to probe further.
The police cannot be second guessing forensic audits. Do the police have the investigative capability to investigate some of the financial matters that they are being handed? What game is the government playing?

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