Auditor-General flags lapses, including transferring official funds to personal bank accounts

SINGAPORE - The People’s Association, Public Service Division, Ministry of Communications and Information and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore were among the government agencies flagged for lapses and weaknesses, in a report released on Wednesday.

For SFA, there were possible irregularities in some quotations for ad-hoc works at facilities managed by SFA, resulting in concerns over authenticity of the quotations.People’s Association PA had paid about $410,000 to the two contractors for providing lift maintenance and security services. One GRO had transferred $707,000 from its bank account to the personal bank accounts of two staff over seven instances, in sums ranging from $10,000 to $200,000. This was to enable them to withdraw monies for cash disbursements to welfare assistance recipients at festive events.

While the checks did not find evidence of monies being lost or misappropriated in those two cases, such practices pose significant risk of loss or misappropriation, said AGO.PA said it would conduct briefings and training on managing monies in welfare assistance schemes, and implement digital payments for disbursements to reduce cash handling.

AGO also found significant lapses in the evaluation and award of two maintenance services tenders and one cleaning services tender. These included weak controls over the most privileged operating system and database accounts, and weaknesses in the review of accounts and administrators’ accounts in the system.

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