A Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion dri­ver who es­caped pros­e­cu­tion for al­leged­ly steal­ing 103 bales of toi­let pa­per be­long­ing to the cor­po­ra­tion a year ago, is now un­der probe for al­leged mis­use of the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s truck.

The dri­ver should know his fate soon when an in­ves­ti­gat­ing tri­bunal pro­nounces on the mat­ter, ac­cord­ing to Cor­po­ra­tion CEO Ash­mead Mo­hammed on Wednes­day.

He pro­vid­ed an up­date of the sit­u­a­tion to a Par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tee on Lo­cal Au­thor­i­ties, Ser­vice Com­mis­sions and Statu­to­ry Au­thor­i­ties yes­ter­day.

Com­mit­tee mem­ber Ra­mona Ram­di­al had ques­tioned Mo­hammed about the mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of the toi­let pa­per al­leged­ly by a cor­po­ra­tion dri­ver.

Mo­hammed said the is­sue oc­curred a year to 18 months ago and while po­lice “gave clo­sure” on the is­sue, they in­formed the cor­po­ra­tion the statu­to­ry pe­ri­od in which charges could be laid had ex­pired. Mo­hammed said dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion in­volved im­me­di­a­cy and the in­ci­dent was about 12-18 months ago.

He said po­lice were an­tic­i­pat­ing that out of the “glar­ing ev­i­dence” avail­able, the mat­ter would have been dealt with by cor­po­ra­tion mu­nic­i­pal po­lice.

Mo­hammed said de­lay in deal­ing with the mat­ter had been a “grey area” al­though the cor­po­ra­tion CEO heads the mu­nic­i­pal po­lice. He ex­plained a pre­vi­ous in­spec­tor felt the CEO wasn’t his im­me­di­ate su­per­vi­sor, but a suc­ceed­ing of­fi­cer recog­nised his se­nior­i­ty.

Mo­hammed added, “I don’t know if it’s fate but the very dri­ver al­leged­ly in­volved (in the toi­let pa­per is­sue) is right now sub­ject of an­oth­er dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion.”

Say­ing the per­son is still em­ployed at the cor­po­ra­tion, Mo­hammed added “There’s a cur­rent in­ves­ti­ga­tion on al­leged mis­use of a truck while dri­ving it and his al­leged be­hav­iour to­wards mem­bers of the pub­lic and reck­less dri­ving.”

The re­port on this new is­sue is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed in a week, he said.

Mo­hammed re­vealed the cor­po­ra­tion is seek­ing to buy a de­vice cost­ing around $1,000 to de­tect coun­ter­feit mon­ey af­ter a coun­ter­feit $100 bill was found among Cor­po­ra­tion funds de­posit­ed at a bank. Funds came from a con­trac­tor’s fee. The sum was re­placed and re­search was done on what could be done to pre­vent re­cur­rence.

On al­leged “bobol” at Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion in 2017 and the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter’s plan to au­dit it, Min­istry per­ma­nent sec­re­tary Jen­nifer Daniel said she couldn’t speak on that mat­ter though there have been au­dits at var­i­ous cor­po­ra­tions by the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al and the Min­istry. Deyals­ingh said he had hoped the Min­is­ter would have had an­swers by now on the Princes Town is­sue.

Princes Town fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer Ma­habir Gheesan said two in­stances of fraud against the cor­po­ra­tion were not­ed in­volv­ing an ex­ter­nal com­pa­ny which has not been al­lowed to work for the cor­po­ra­tion again.

Ma­yaro CEO Mo­hammed said his cor­po­ra­tion es­tab­lished a Do­na­tion Reg­is­ter af­ter last year’s flood, to ac­count for items do­nat­ed. This in­clud­ed a dinghy com­ing from a for­eign com­pa­ny. He said the cor­po­ra­tion paid work­ers over­time over East­er to re­move sar­gas­sum weed from sea shores, “But if you move it at 10 am it re­turns by 2 pm. We get no as­sis­tance from Tourism. We store it at a site and the pub­lic’s free to come and take it. Ex­pres­sions of in­ter­est haven’t been forth­com­ing,” he said.

Deyals­ingh it was a small busi­ness which could be ex­plored and hoped some­one used the op­por­tu­ni­ty.