A report on Cayman’s affordable housing initiative has been referred to police for further investigation.
In making the announcement to members of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Minister Arden McLean said there was no witch hunt and no individual or group was being targeted.
Mr. McLean said the Auditor General had been asked last month for an urgent and special forensic audit on the National Housing and Community Development Trust from the inception of the affordable housing initiative.
The audit was to be carried out in two phases, covering September 2004 to May 2005, and scrutinising the performance and history of the affordable housing initiative from its inception to May this year.
Investigators will submit the second phase of the report to the governor by the end of August, he said.
Mr. McLean said the governor made the first phase of the report public yesterday, as promised to the Cabinet
There had been growing unease in the civil service since the announcement of the forensic audit, and Minister McLean said he wanted to allay any fears within the community.
The report was critical of management practices, and cited issues about allocation and dispersal of public funds, he told the House.
The RCIP Crime Unit had the report, he said.
The fact that the Auditor General had uncovered irregularities was of grave concern, Mr. McLean said.
To avoid prejudicing possible criminal investigations, the report would not be debated in the House, he said.
He promised to give his views in the future on the ‘very sordid and unfortunate’ period in the social and economic life of the country’, he said.
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