Forensic audit will be conducted on the Youth and Sports Ministry

The forensic audit will be conducted by the Auditor-General's Department of the Youth and Sports Ministry and agencies under its purview.

Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa said the department will be submitted a report expected in the first quarter of this year.

He said a forensic audit will examine the existing government’s financial regulations and the extent to which it complied with the various stages of an internal process in KBS.

"We will identify weaknesses of the existing financial procedure KBS in which National Audit Department will report the results to the Government so improvements can be done.

"Through the process (forensic audit) we can see how these things can be overlooked by the integrity officer at the ministry itself," he said in a press conference in Putrajaya, Monday afternoon.

He added that the same process will be further extended to other ministries.

At the same time, he said interdiction actions will be made until the court proceedings against the officer involved is completed.

"If found guilty, the officer will be suspended and will not be paid any emoluments until the disciplinary board should decide the punishment imposed on him which led up to dismissal," he said.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin on Monday confirmed that the senior officer who was detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on suspicion of masterminding a syndicate to misappropriate government funds, was a member of staff at his ministry.

However, Khairy said he was unaware about the syndicate as he claimed that the suspect had misused a procedure which did not require approval from the minister or chief secretary.

The 56-year-old senior was with eight other people, including a woman, were arrested by MACC for allegedly moving the syndicate together to cause the loss of more than RM100 million to the government.