Hit them all, no matter how small the involvement. If you are linked to it, press charges on each and every one. Don't just target a select few and let others lurk or disappear in the shadows!!

Fire. Imprison. But, most importantly, get our frigging money back!!!

ITS NOT YOUR MONEY PUNDIT. IT USED TO BELONG TO BPL.

And not a single senior official at BPL will end up in prison for the crimes committed in this matter..... just wait and see!

One of the biggest problems in any businesses is controlling its assets, especially cash, and ensuring it does not go missing. Theft by employees is a quick way for any business to go out of business. One measure of controlling theft or misappropriation of funds is to ensure when persons are caught they are both punished and dismissed. The rules should be no different for government workers or public servants. Despite the multiple millions of dollars allegedly stolen from various government departments or quasi government companies no one had been charged or seriously reprimanded. If fact the person suspected of stealing many millions from road traffic was promoted to an even higher office with no investigation. And so the t'iefin continues.

Fire em all throw maynard in for good measure he's crooked one way or the other just for being a union boss.

LOL!

"*Last month, President of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union Paul Maynard said “there will be hell to pay” if his union members remain on suspension during the investigation, while managers at the power company “go unscathed.Mr Maynard said he will not stand by and let his members be railroaded when those of higher rank, whom he claims are allegedly the only ones who have access to the funds in question, remain at work.*"

Paul Maynard and his like are the root of the problem in this country. Anything is ok as long as one if MY people do it. if his small people have a part in it, prosecute them. If the big people get prosecuted two months later that's fine.

If I am not mistaken, banks do not cash cheques made out to companies (the report refers to invoices from fake companies). Also, is a an approved purchase requisition not required by the Corporation before a job is contracted? This "scheme" must have been very elaborate indeed! No wonder they cannot keep the power on, too busy looting and pillaging.

What does "suspension" mean???????? ........ slap on the wrist and forget it ever happened??????

This "elaborate scheme" was most probably going on for years if not decades. The more they look, the more they will discover missing. I hope they catch every single one of them and charge them accordingly!

Comrades! I think it would be all but impossible to ripoff $3 million - without some form co-insider assistance? $3 million isn't exactly some small chunk of change to have walk off with - all by ya lonesome self?

Review of Bills: at some point there should be a sign-off by a Manager to confirm a bill is to be processed for payment (at the stage of entry into the accounting system, or at the stage of actually printing a check to pay it). That's a standard control. So whomever authorized the bills to pay the vendors should have been able to say whether the charges were for legitimate services rendered or not.

New Vendors: there should be some procedure in place to ensure no new vendors are included in the accounting system until it has been confirmed by a senior level manager.

Now if over $3M went missing, then that means these controls were never in place to begin with (or not being followed); and when BPL took over management of BEC to put the controls in place, they discovered fake vendors (especially if you paying more than $100K to them in a year, and they don't have a VAT registration/TIN number or worse...the TIN Number fake [another crime]).

Eventually they all will get caught.

Making payments to fake vendors sounds like an elaborate scheme, but if the right oversight was in place to start with, it could have been avoided a long time ago.

Corruption in every corner you look. Greed while the unemployed have their utilities cut off. I wouldn't want to be these people on judgement day. They will get what they deserve. Even in this life karma is real. Money acquired at the expense of others will not make you rich. It may be health, unhappiness, losses that money just can't fix. Money can't buy health or happiness.