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B-191161 1 (1978-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtfe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: '-:355 f UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFpICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL - 13-191161 ' 1t The Ronorable Samuel W. Brown, Jr, Dir6ctor, AMT1ON Near Mr. Drovm: This is in answer to a letter from the Chiefi Fiscal Services Branch, with enclosures, whirh requests that printipal class cashier, a Peace Corps employee in Palau, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia, be relieved of liability for a $1,809.97 shortage of funds in his custody. The inforiantion subwitted to us indicates that the shortage resulted from a burglary at the Peace Corps office in Palau, estern Caroline Islands, Micronesiat Somiatime during the night of Dfetmber 6, 1976, unknown person(s) gained entry to the cashier's office by breaking through the bathroom walls. The thieves broke into the safe and escaped with $309.87 in Imptost funds, $1,500 cash proceeds fram the sale of an old vehidle, and three U.S. checks payable to the cashier. ACTOI has qubsequently been reimbursed for the proceeds of check number 113,841 dated 9/22/76. Step paynent actions on check number 114,157 dated 11/26/76 for $121.83 and cheak number 114,119 dated 11/13/76 for $396.80 are still pending. Upon discovery of the break-in, the local police were-contacted. The police apprehended two suspects who were subsequently brought to trial aud found not guilty. The investigation developed no informs- tion that would implicate Cashier in connection with the theft. 31 U.S.C. $ 82a-0i(1970) authorizes the General Accounting Office to grant relief to an accountable officer for a physical loss of funds upon our concurrence in determinatlons by the agency head-- C * * (1) that such loss or deficiency occurred while such officer or agent was acting in the discharge of his offii:iAl duties, or that sh lose or deficiency occurred b7 reason of .:th-o act or omission of a subor- dinate of suh of fineer or agent; and (2) that suth loss or deficiency occurred without fault or neligence on the part of sguh officer or agent. * * * lvb ~~~~~~~~~~~~. . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . . .:i ,,:.:i:;:;::.... -i: ' :.-. ..-.. • ' . .-.:,..i:'. . : : .. :. : .'-. . .- ..

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