Friday October 23, 2009
Officers cleared over petrol purchase
THE Penang Government has given a “clean bill” to its staff over three issues raised by the Auditor-General’s Report over the purchase of petrol for official cars and the frequent change of tyres.
State Financial Officer Datuk Farizan Darus said their investigations showed that there were no irregularities which could bring pecuniary interests to the drivers or to the state secretariat administration.
“The incidents mostly occurred during the previous state administration.
“We are now taking steps to improve and strengthen the existing system so that such cases do not recur,” he said in a statement in George Town yesterday.
Farizan said there were no dubious petrol claims in the filling up of the tanks of three vehicles twice within a span of three to eight minutes between March and June last year.
He said this was because each filling up of the tank was limited to RM200 each time in 2008 to control expenditure.
“The tanks of two buses needed to be filled up twice for a long distance trip,” he said.
On the tank of the Proton Perdana car (PHK 42) being filled up twice within a short time, he explained it actually involved two cars.
“After PHK 42 had filled up its tank, another car PDC7722 also filled up at the same time using the indent card of PHK 42 since the indent card of PDC 7722 was damaged,” he said.
Farizan said the tyres of several cars were changed frequently due to five reasons, including damage to the tyres.
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