First : Hmmm, Then : Geezzzz, Later : Not Unfamiliar What.....

Have you read OutSyed The Box : 40% X rm900-mil = rm360-mi

Then You must read Another Brick In The Wall: driving-to-disaster

Let me tell you about my reaction. I read both of this post after reading some of the Government Audit  2012.

My first reaction after reading mr syed posting was Hmmm. I knew something wrong in Pemandu but this getting weird. How can those SO SMART people can lets this happen. Why Najib fail to monitor this when everybody in the web talking rampantly about this?

He projected himself as a Internet savvy PM but he fail to monitor this? After all a lot of blogger commenting about the weird things in Pemandu,right? don't he read all those comment??? Hmmmmm

Then, I read Another Brick In The Wall, then I understand it more. The reaction Geezzz come to mind. With millions involving, I thought that the scheme was complicated, But really, what this folks doing was applied KISS system (those who don't know, KISS means Keep It Simple Stupid).

It is like a pyramid scheme. There's a leader to coordinate. He got his percentage. Then his helper who will rake another percentage. Then come a front where the money will be whitewash, they also get a percentage. Then after the money been whitewash, the money will go to the right person, service,manufacturer or who/what ever involved.

To make sure their activities can go on without a red alert, they reduce the programme budget to below the limit of higher approval In this case under RM100K. Sound familiar everyone?

Let me share you a secret. A office working secret. A lot of people who working in the office and involving in finance work know this secret. It has been done a lot of times in a lot of companies.

Every company have a limit expenses approval for certain level. Example, Section Manager RM 10K, Department Manager RM30K, General Manager RM50K and CEO RM 100K. This system has been  put there to control the excess expenses. This  system also been used, usually to make sure that the higher level will come to aware every times extra expenses has been made.

But this system easier to manipulated.

If department head don't want to report their big expenses project, they will simply divided the project to their limited approval portion. Then the big project will divided into stages. Some will cost a delayed to the project, but the department head will get away from meeting with their CEO or COO or VP or President to present this big project for budget or payment approval.

They will get away with it a lot of times too. If this has been done by Department Head then GM or CEO will never aware of this. Unless of course, major audit has been done for the whole company.
         
Back 1Azam. So, what this IAzam been doing is not something extra ordinary. It has been done before. They just doing it in a bigger scale. They take it a step further by taking a percentage for their own gain. They used the weakness in the system to manipulated it.

It so simple and easy to understand and it all come down to greed. GREED. So it is Geezzz, here goes another  people who will using the weakness in system for their  own gain. With a lot of money changing hand,  they think they also have the share in it. So they manipulated the system.

They manipulating the system. Period.

Then after understanding how they got away for that long,my reaction was it not so unfamiliar what. It  has been done before only the money involving  was variance. Sophisticated? Nah....

You  don't  get angry ahh  Sarah? Someone asked me. I  just  tell him, When  greed come knocking, some  people can  resist  it but  some  won't. In this case,  greed  get  the  upper  hand. So they manipulating the system to enrich themself.

The  system existing to control people   mis-used  the  fund existing, but when it involving the money,  some people always try to manipulating it.They don't want to follow the rules. And sometimes it creating a waste while sometimes it  creating the corruption.

Do  the  system  at fault? No. But  how to  prevent this  kind of  things  from happening again?

 Should we abolish the system and create a new system  and in this case all budget and payment must be approved by top management only, as a solution? No. It will create a backlog.

What we can do is improved the system. From now on, let's make a point for each section, department, Sr manager or what ever level to submitting their approval budget summary every month to their respective leader.

This leader also need to do the same to their leader. By doing this,they don't have a reasons to say they don't know it as it is below their approval limit.After all every month they received the report.

This actually can reducing the mis-used of expenses or budget.It also reducing the tendency to manipulating the system.

The government should use this practises.
 
As for 1Azam guys case with MRCC, I will monitor this case carefully. After all my personal though is the corrupted Government Servant should be punished harshly as they work for government to served us not taking advantage on us for their own gain.

By the way, I think it is funny that he given the money to his girlfriends for makeover and she end up still looking ordinary. Hmmmm LOL....

But then again this has a tendency blow out. After all, if he is smart he didn't take the advantage of the system in the first place. Because he not so smart that he manipulated the system and end up getting cought.

Another not so smart people thinking he is smarter then anyone else, hehhehheh