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25-07-2013, 11:00 AM
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He quite steady to openly say he will take all the blame. At least tahan a bit for PM Office.
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Now, we have the CPIB case. The Prime Minister’s Office has weighed in; CPIB is under PMO. The PM has appointed an independent review panel to look at how this case happened and to strengthen the financial procedures and audit system in CPIB to prevent a recurrence.
“The recommendations of the panel are being implemented.’’ Question: What are they? And were there supervisory lapses?
Already, some are asking if civil servants should be banned from entering casinos. Asked this yesterday, Law Minister K Shanmugam said: “I think this is something that you should ask, I think DPM is dealing with it, or I believe the civil service is dealing with it. I would prefer not to go into it.”
PMO also asked CAD and CPIB to conduct a study of public officers investigated by them for corruption and other financial crimes over the last five years.
The answer: “On average, CPIB opened 39 cases involving public officers per year for investigation. These cases made up about 20 per cent of all cases opened by CPIB. About two-thirds of the investigations involving public officers led to prosecution or disciplinary proceedings.’’
“Overall the study concluded that cases involving public officers have remained low and quite stable over the last five years.’’
The Head of the Civil Service is expected to make the key findings public by the end of the week. Let’s hope every detail is revealed, rather than a mere executive summary that raises more questions than it answers.
By the way, CPIB Director Eric Tan gave a very full apology for what had happened, the fullest ever made by someone in charge in recent time: “I am deeply sorry that a loss of public funds occurred during my watch. As the most senior officer in the agency, I accept responsibility for any lapses or deficiencies which allowed a senior staff’s actions to go undetected for four years. CPIB will learn from this. It will strengthen its safeguards and improve its processes to prevent this from happening again.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?158010-Eric-Tan-very-quot-pai-say-quot-that-this-happen&goto=newpost).
He quite steady to openly say he will take all the blame. At least tahan a bit for PM Office.
Quote:
Now, we have the CPIB case. The Prime Minister’s Office has weighed in; CPIB is under PMO. The PM has appointed an independent review panel to look at how this case happened and to strengthen the financial procedures and audit system in CPIB to prevent a recurrence.
“The recommendations of the panel are being implemented.’’ Question: What are they? And were there supervisory lapses?
Already, some are asking if civil servants should be banned from entering casinos. Asked this yesterday, Law Minister K Shanmugam said: “I think this is something that you should ask, I think DPM is dealing with it, or I believe the civil service is dealing with it. I would prefer not to go into it.”
PMO also asked CAD and CPIB to conduct a study of public officers investigated by them for corruption and other financial crimes over the last five years.
The answer: “On average, CPIB opened 39 cases involving public officers per year for investigation. These cases made up about 20 per cent of all cases opened by CPIB. About two-thirds of the investigations involving public officers led to prosecution or disciplinary proceedings.’’
“Overall the study concluded that cases involving public officers have remained low and quite stable over the last five years.’’
The Head of the Civil Service is expected to make the key findings public by the end of the week. Let’s hope every detail is revealed, rather than a mere executive summary that raises more questions than it answers.
By the way, CPIB Director Eric Tan gave a very full apology for what had happened, the fullest ever made by someone in charge in recent time: “I am deeply sorry that a loss of public funds occurred during my watch. As the most senior officer in the agency, I accept responsibility for any lapses or deficiencies which allowed a senior staff’s actions to go undetected for four years. CPIB will learn from this. It will strengthen its safeguards and improve its processes to prevent this from happening again.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?158010-Eric-Tan-very-quot-pai-say-quot-that-this-happen&goto=newpost).