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Mr.Chan Pui are recalled. In the course of the enquiries which were instituted as a result of those defalcations it was ascertainad beyond doubt that not only was the
accounting system defective but also that the extent and the nature of the supervision which had been exercised over the accounting operations was inadequate. With this knowledge and looking to the advantage which had been taken of the existing defects and omissions it would have been reasonable to
expect that no time would have been
lost in providing such safeguards as would render the committal of further frauds more difficult, if not impossible, and, if committed, more quickly detected. This was an obvious duty which devolved
equally upon both the Treasurer and the Captain Superintendent of Police (see especially Colonial Regulation 218(1) and (v) and Colonial Regulation 220) But, beyond the appointment of a European Accountant (who appears to have been singularly unfitted for such a responsible post) it does not appear that any really effective
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effective measures were taken
either to improve the system or
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to increase the supervision, with
the result that Fattah Mohamed,
like Chan Pui, apparently had
little difficulty in carrying
out his fraude. It can therefore
only be concluded that both the
Treasurer and the Captain Superin-
tendent of Police have failed in
their duty.
The Governor states (para-
graph 9) that he is satisfied that
the arrangements now in force (presumably since these frauds)
should make it a matter of great
difficulty to perpetrate further frauds, and it would be interesting to know, in detail, what these
arrangements are.
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