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B-197092 1 (1980-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjrk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 6/O GAO United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel' In Reply Refer to: B-197092 February 13, 1980 Mr. William Livengood Acting Chief, Central Accounting Division Office of Financial Management Agency for International Development Department of State i Lle. Dear Mr. Livengood: This responds to yourequest for relief for five Agency for International Development (AID) Imprest fund cashiers for total losses of $387,916.96. You also ask that restoration of the losses be charged to local currency and dollar funds held in trust by the United States Government for the former Government of oit-h VTji m (accounts 72x8502,7 O' 72FT800) in amounts of $48,840.62 and 256,002,649 ($339,076.34) Viet- namese piastres respectively. You claim the loss was unavoidable and not due to the negligence of any of the cashiers. We concur in your determination that relief should be granted but conclude that restora- tion of the losses should come from the current appropriation available for the disbursing function. On April 29, 1975, AID personnel were evacuated from Saigon, Vietnam as a result of a rapid and unexpected enemy advance. Prior -- to the evacuation, the American Embassy ordered destruction of currency and supporting documents, among wh1-cI were imprest funds advanced to AID by the Treasury Department. You assert that since the loss, unsuccessful efforts have been made to reconstruct accounting records for the imprest fund. You ask relief for the following cashiers in the following respective total amounts of dollars and the dollar equivalents of piastres: Vu Thi Thao (Saigon), $69,735.09; Tan Lieu (Can Tho), $111,337.75; Lee Thi Dao (Danang), $100,104.88; Nguyen Thi Thuy (Nhatrang), $70,723.63; Tran Kim Thuy (Bien Hoa), $36,015.61. You also request that the loss be considered a proper charge against funds held in trust by the United States Government for the former Government of South Vietnam since the funds represent amounts the Uited States Treasury Department advanced to AID and the loss was the result of enemy action.

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