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B-238955 1 (1991-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacsnn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States- Generl Accounting Offce Washington, D.C. 20548 Ofce of the General Counsel B-238955 April ..3, 1991 Mr. Anthony A. Dudley Associate Comptroller, Financial Operations United States Department of State Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Dudley: This responds to your request that Mr. David Sedney, a former Vice Consul, United States Embassy, Bucharest, Romania, be granted relief from liability for the unexplained loss of $992.06 in funds from an Overseas Consular Service (OCS) trust fund. For the reasons set forth below, we deny relief. BACKGROUND In March 1989, Mr. Manta Baciu, an American citizen, died in a car accident in Constanta, Romania. Mr. Baciu's American wife and other relatives in the United States forwarded $2,049 through the OCS trust fund for Mr. Baciu's hospital and . funeral expenses. On April 8, 1987, 10,000 Romanian lei, the local currency equivalent of $992.06, was paid out to Mr. Baciu's relatives in Romania through a voucher dated April 1, 1987.. The record indicates that Mr. Baciu's Romanian relatives used their own funds to pay the expenses and therefore returned the 10,000 lei to the embassy-on April 14, 1987. Mr. Sedney signed a standard form.SF-1165, dated April 14, 1987, acknowledging that he received the 10,000 lei. The receipt is the only.embassy record of the returned funds, which cannot-be accounted for after this point. On the same date ( the money was returned to the embassy, April 14, 1987, the voucher for the original disbursement of funds was forwarded to the Paris Regional Administrative Management Center for processing under a cashier transmittal. By the time the loss was discovered, Mr. Sedney had left his post at the embassy for another assignment. According to the record of investigation, Mr. Sedney claims to have given the money to the embassy cashier, but cannot recall whether he obtained a receipt. The cashier claims never to have received the money from Mr. Sedney. The record also indicates that Mr. Sedney discussed with the embassy's administrative officer, Mr. Jim Robertson, how the money could be refunded to the trust account without a loss in view of a drop in the exchange rate after the funds were disbursed. Mr. Sedney states that Mr. Robertson deci d that the original

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