Customs officer goes on RM1.82mil shopping spree


A Customs military military military military officer bought hundreds of equipment not allocated for, raking up a check of RM1.82 million, a Auditor-General's Report 2011 reveals.

The officer, who is not declared in a report, had placed a verbal sequence for a items, a little of these costing multiform thousands of ringgit, though a buying division's approval, withdrawal a Treasury to foot a bill.

He had ordered:
  • An extra 50 GPS navigation systems when he was usually certified to sequence 30, costing RM6,174 each;
  • An extra 100 poke lights, when he had obtained approval to sequence usually 50, costing RM1,292.60 each;
  • 60 guide lights during RM1,311 each;
  • 250 rechargeable torchlights during RM1,217.16 each; and
  • 100 walkie-talkies during RM5,259 each.
The military military military military officer had not been certified to sequence any of a final three items.

According to a review report, a purchases were made in 2007 though a supplier, True Target Resources, could not be paid as a check went beyond a buying budget of a Royal Customs as well as Excise Department.

It combined which a Treasury in in 2010 authorized a payment as well as an investigation in to how a breach of regulations had taken place was started.

The Finance Ministry upon December 22, 2010, issued a directive to a Customs Dpartment to lodge a police inform opposite a erring officer.

"However, no movement was taken opposite a military military military military officer involved as he had since a 24-hour notice of abdication upon Feb 26, 2008," a review inform states.

On May 24, 2012, a Customs Departm! ent lodg ed a police inform opposite a erring officer.

Tourism projects swept in to a sea

The auditor-general additionally ticks off a Tourism Ministry in a 2011 rep! ort for "poor place or justification" for a little of its tourism infrastructure projects.

The method had built 13 huts (wakaf) costing a total of RM190,000 as well as a floating restaurant in Bachok in 2008, though nothing of these survived.

The review revealed which a area was tighten to a stream as well as floodprone, as well as which a method did not check with a Meteorological Department prior to building a huts as well as restaurant.

A replica of a Japanese installation as well as dual huts in Kota Baru, costing RM180,000 which were additionally built in 2008, were brought down by high tide.

NONEAn appended picture taken in November, 2011 (left) shows a installation as well as hut in pieces in a sea.

"Planning should take in to consideration a suitability of land as well as place to ensure which tou! rists can! make use of these infrastuctures optimally as well as safely," a inform says.

In reply to a review fundings, a method said it would plan improved in a destiny as well as would deliberate agencies such as a Meterological Department as well as a Department of Irrigation as well as Drainage prior to you do so.
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