Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has urged those who may know who stole $90,000 from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion or com­mit­ted any oth­er im­pro­pri­ety at any oth­er cor­po­ra­tion to come for­ward.

She al­so vowed to make pub­lic the per­son or peo­ple re­spon­si­ble for steal­ing the cash.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of the mon­ey at the cor­po­ra­tion’s Pen­i­tence Street lo­ca­tion. The mon­ey, which rep­re­sent­ed fees and tax­es col­lect­ed be­tween April 30 and May 16, was dis­cov­ered miss­ing by an em­ploy­ee on May 19.

Guardian Me­dia had re­port­ed that around 3.15 pm on May 16, an em­ploy­ee of the cor­po­ra­tion se­cured $6,534.50 in a four-draw­er fire­proof cab­i­net. The cab­i­net, how­ev­er, al­ready con­tained $83,465.50. The mon­ey was in sealed bank en­velopes. The cab­i­net, lo­cat­ed in an of­fice on the west­ern side of the build­ing, was then locked.

Asked for an up­date on the in­ves­ti­ga­tion yes­ter­day, Ameen said, “I will share with the pub­lic in a very short time.”

How­ev­er, she warned re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions about fi­nan­cial im­pro­pri­ety and those who are aware of it.

She added, “What I want to say to all re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, you have been starv­ing for re­sources. You com­plained for a long time of not hav­ing re­sources. To have any kind of im­pro­pri­ety, any kind of mis­man­age­ment of your mon­ey is a se­ri­ous in­dict­ment. When we iden­ti­fy the wrong­do­ers, we will make it pub­lic. We will have it ful­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed.

“But I want to say that any­one who knows of wrong­do­ing and re­mains silent, you are an ac­com­plice.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the San Fer­nan­do CID have since con­duct­ed in­ter­views with staff mem­bers. It was con­firmed that mul­ti­ple em­ploy­ees had ac­cess to both the cab­i­net and its key.

Last week, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris said it was an ad­min­is­tra­tive is­sue and had noth­ing to do with the po­lit­i­cal arm. How­ev­er, he said CEO Heather Craw­ford had writ­ten a re­port to the per­ma­nent sec­re­tary and CPO for ad­vice on how to pro­ceed.