Six employees of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) were sent home following the discovery of a fraud of just under one million dollars in the pension scheme department, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon has said.
At his weekly press briefing yesterday, Luncheon said the NIS board was recently advised about the fraud which involves the “corrupt practices by some members of staff in the pension branch by the falsification of records,” which allowed them to receive monies of pensioners who have gone to the great beyond. He said the investigation targeted specific members of staff after conclusive evidence of involvement was discovered. He said the police have since been called in and they are also investigating the fraud which dates back to 2006. The management was given the approval of the board to move ahead “quickly to bring this matter to a closure.”
There should be the same speed to investigate other frauds ..where is the speed to investigate why those little innocent dolphins that were illegally shipped out of Guyana….the fraud list in this country is endless …there is only an investigation when it involves a certain segment of Guyanese …all others WALK free.
The small man must be punish and the big ones
shall be free to walk according to the laws of Guyana
my friend badlall.
“who have gone to the great beyond”…don’t you mean “who have died”? Colloquialisms have no place in a newspaper.
With conclusive evidence of involvement, these “fraudsters” should not have been sent home… but straight to the Brickdam lockups where they belong
At the Brickdam 3 star that was recently renovated/cleaned by Don Gomes.
Can we have their names and photos, please, at some point? Let the world see these crooks.
yes…i agree…names and photos please…sn…………………..
One million U.S, or G.T, If latter 1.000.000 -:- 6 = 166.666.67 if guilty, would lose job, and be goin straight to jail.
Just the small fish.
As Dr. Luncheon rightfully goes after the NIS fraud, the government should also go after the frauds such as the Milk Scan, Dophin Scam, Chartiy Wharf scam, Pension Book scam, East Coast sewall scam, Forestry Scam, Law book Scam and the hundreds of other scams that have been signature politics for the last 16 years.
…. ever heard “de big thieves ,, hang de little thieves” ,, it’s a Czech ,, proverb ,, a country half way around the planet ,, and their thoughts abt human behavior,, have an affect on ours ,,, people are the same where ever u go !….
they should repay all that money to the family of the decease, what a shame stealing from the dead
Six NIS employees sent home for being suspected of stealing under one million dollars! Hip hip! Hoooray! What does government expect from its employees who are seeing other government employees with political links living larger than usual on barely-enough salaries?
What’s the status of the six or more employees from Office of the President who were charged more than three years ago with stealing millions (yes, more than one million) from the President’s Christmas Fund for depressed communites in Georgetown?
When we talk about a criminally corrupt government, it is not that the employees are corrupt, but there is a sense of facilitation by the powers that be. Since the polygrap testing of CANU officers that saw nine getting fired, we had no more polygraphs, yet we know for sure there are people enriching themselves at the expense of other Guyanese and the treasury. But the state is not going after these, because “is ah we turn now!”