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B-305885 1 (2005-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptarbd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-305885 September 2, 20005 Sheila 0. Conley Chair, Committee of Inquiry into Fiscal Irregularities United States Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Subject: Relief ofAccountable Officers Emery Banguid & Frank Forgione US. Embassy, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo Dear Ms. Conley: This responds to your letter of June 27, 2005, requesting that we relieve Mr. Emery Banguid and Mr. Frank Forgione of liability for the loss in 1997 of $21,403.04 from the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. For the following reasons, we grant relief. BACKGROUND On June 5, 1997, as civil war broke out in the Republic of the Congo, Foreign Service National employees were ordered to leave the U.S. Embassy amid sporadic shooting in the capital, Brazzaville. Among those ordered to leave was alternate Class B Cashier Emery Banguid. (The regular embassy cashier had been on leave and had transferred his functions to Mr. Banguid as an alternate.) Upon Mr. Banguid's departure, the cashier's safe was locked and only routine documents that were being routed for signature or comment were left out of the safe. According to embassy staff, those documents included invoices, receipts, vouchers for payments, and similar paperwork of the type that would have been left out at the end of a routine business day. Letter from Sheila 0. Conley, Chair, Committee of Inquiry into Fiscal Irregularities, Department of State, to Anthony H. Gamboa, General Counsel, GAO, June 27, 2005 (Conley letter). At the time of Mr. Banguid's departure, U.S. citizen employees were still present at the embassy. Amid escalating violence, the entire embassy staff was evacuated on June 11, 1997. The Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) opened the alternate cashier's safe, verified the cash on hand, and removed items from the safe that required action by the financial service center (FSC) in Paris to bring to Kinshasa for processing. Due to lack of space and time, the DCM could not take all of the documents that were in the safe and did not locate interim receipts for the four embassy sub-cashiers. Temporary

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