Thiruvananthapuram: The report delivered by City Corporation to the Directorate of Urban Affairs held a cashier, the person who took the money to the bank and officers was guilty of the fraud by the Zon office.
According to the report, the cashier should send tax and non-tax revenues received in the office the following day in the corporate secretary bank account in the nearest SBI branch.
Most often, it’s not a cashier, but the peon or other staff who deposit money at the bank.
After the number was sent, the Challan front desk with the bank seal was returned.
This is certified by officers allegations and signed and inserted on the register.
In the days where payments have never reached a bank account, the staff carrying the money did not deposit it in the bank and falsify counterfoil banks.
References without bank seals are inserted on the register.
It shows that the cashier, the staff carrying money and officers of allegations / supervisors should check the front desk were sealed equally guilty, said the report.
The audit facilities together by the state audit department are available for corporations.
However, this is done once a year at the zonal office, because the Covid situation, this audit is not carried out at 2020-21.
The corporation has lost a number of Rs 32.96 lakh and this needs to be restored from the staff responsible for fraud.
The demand for departments and police investigations is underway, the report said.
The incident was revealed when officers accused reported a month’s delay in depositing Rs 1.74 Lakh at the Zonal Office of Sreekryam.
Further audits show that a number of RS 5.12 Lakh was collected for six days between January 22 and July 6 at the Zonal Office Sreekryamam was not reflected in the Corporation account.
At the Zonal Nemom office where the biggest fraud was carried out, a number of Rs 26.74 lakh were lost.
This was collected between January 24, 2020, and July 14.
One of the suspended staff at the Nemom Zonal office had told the Toi that the number was often taken to the bank by other staff.
However, when funds were lost, all staff who used to bring money to the bank denied having brought a collection.
The two officials also failed to check the Contactefoil daily which was sealed back from the bank and pasted it to the register.
There are also no records stored for monitoring people carrying the number to the bank.
TII previously brought a report to quote cases where the same example of lost funds was buried and the responsible staff was given casual leave when the cashier raised the problem that the funds brought from the office were never stored in the bank.