Kuwait Education Ministry investigates payroll fraud
Kuwait’s Ministry of Education officials have been allegedly
involved in paying themselves bonuses when none are warranted, in some cases
for more than a year, Kuwaiti media reported.
The Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Saud Al
Harbi, referred the matter to the Public Prosecution to reveal the cause of
this crime and prosecute those involved, Al Qabas reported.
Al Harbi assigned the acting undersecretary of the Ministry
of Education, Dr. Bader Bajad and the Assistant Undersecretary for Financial
Affairs Youssef Al Najjar to review all salaries and bonuses for teachers and
employees in the ministry’s headquarters, educational districts, and all
departments.
The sources confirmed that the ministry started the
procedures for counting the funds that were unlawfully disbursed, estimated at
thousands of dinars to recover the money and taking legal action against those
who got the money unwarrantly.
The minister also asked to explore the system of work in the
financial management and review the procedures and powers of the officials and
accountants, and to bring to account any wrongdoers.
The audit work until now showed that the payroll system was
illegally accessed to increase the salaries of two cases. The first of a
Kuwaiti employee in administrative affairs who received bonus in her salary of
1,500 dinars, per month from April 2019 until April 2020, and the second case
is also a Kuwaiti employee, working in the Private Education Department, who
received a bonus of 800 dinars to her monthly salary from September 2019 until
May 2020
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