Although there has been some progress in the investigation of the embezzlement of over $20 million from the Golden Grove/ Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), Chairman of the local authority Bharrat Narine says he is not optimistic that anything will come of the matter any time soon.
Speaking to Stabroek News last week, Narine said that the NDC was recently contacted by the auditor of the Ministry of Communities who requested the internal report on the alleged embezzlement of the NDC’s money by a tax collector.
“They requested the internal report we would’ve generated when we did our internal audit and since then we would’ve delivered it to them. Again, at the regional level we had a meeting last Tuesday and it is now on the local government department report that the status of the matter is being actively taken up by the Ministry,” Narine explained.
