By Moneth G. Deposa
Variety News Staff

THE Commonwealth Ports Authority will sue its former payroll service provider, Information Data System, to recover over half a million dollars that the company failed to account for last year.
CPA Executive Director Clyde K. Norita said they will file the lawsuit next week.
In October last year, CPA filed a criminal complaint against the Guam-based company for failing to transfer about $500,000 which covered the retirement contributions of the agency’s employees for seven pay periods.
CPA, which has 220 personnel, had been doing business with IDS for five years.
“Our plan now is to go ahead and file a civil suit against IDS to recover our money. We’re just awaiting the formal notification from (the Office of the Public Auditor) which will tell us when to file it,” Norita told Variety on Friday.
He said they consulted OPA to make sure that “there won’t be any problem with regard to the investigation.”
Norita added, “We want this thing to be resolved as soon as possible. We didn’t take any action after the filing of the criminal complaint (with the Department of Public Safety) because we didn’t want to hamper or compromise the criminal investigation.”
IDS failed to transfer over $12 million into the accounts of its Guam and Saipan clients last year.
Its other clients on Saipan included Saipan World Resort, Nikko Hotel and Pacific Islands Club.