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A report scrutinising Fiji government finances and financial practices in 2007 has identified what it calls possible fraudulent activities with regards to receipting of immigration revenue.
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Thu, 2 Sep 2010
SUVA, Fiji (FIJI LIVE) ---- A report scrutinising Fiji government finances and financial practices in 2007 has identified what it calls possible fraudulent activities with regards to receipting of immigration revenue.
The Public Accounts Committee’s latest report on the Auditor-General’s report of 2007 said that “passport applications and vetting sheets were not consistent with revenue recorded”.
The report also said that from the samples taken, an audit revealed that 19 people were residing illegally in the country.
“That indicated that the department (of defence) did not have the capacity to be able to expedite the removal of illegal immigrants that had exploited the loopholes in our immigration laws,” the report concluded.
It also cited the case of an immigration officer Udai Kumar continuing to receive his full salary for the first three months of suspension after being charged with official corruption.
This resulted in a salary overpayment of $2,739.
The report also said that the Department of Defence had been incurring substantial telephone charges over the years and that the matter had been raised continuously by the Office of the Auditor-General’s report.
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