Named in the complaints were Anne Marie Navarette, 31, John Tudela Santos, 44, Lorraine Chyanna Rios, 29, Criselda C. Aldan, 22, and Maureen G. Sebangiol, 53.
Navarette, Santos and Rios were charged with theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, and theft by unlawful taking.
Navarette is employed by Northern Marianas Housing Corp., Santos is a Department of Finance employee assigned at the customs division, while Rios is a Department of Corrections employee.
On Dec. 24, 2009, the AGO said Navarette failed to deposit the full amount of $1,714, which belonged to NMHC, in a local bank.
She retained $700 in her custody, the AGO stated.
It added that on Dec. 24, 2009, Santos did not deposit $260.21 into the Finance account at a local bank and retained the amount to himself.
On Jan. 8, 2010, the AGO stated, Rios obtained $2,150 in cash bail held in trust by Corrections.
These cases stemmed from an investigation by the Office of the Public Auditor.
Laptop
Criselda C. Aldan, a Public School System employee, stole a laptop computer, according to the AGO.
She was charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition, and removal or possession of government property.
The AGO said Aldan sold a PSS-issued laptop computer, worth $1,200 to GEC Pawnshop on April 12, 2010.
It was not mentioned how much the pawnshop paid for the laptop.
Time sheet
Fourteen charges were filed against Maureen G. Sebangiol, a Department of Public Health employee, for falsifying her time sheet and receiving payments from basic life support training enrollees.
She was charged with 11 counts of theft by deception, two counts of misconduct in office, and one count of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received.
The falsification of time sheet occurred from April 3, 2007 up to Oct. 11, 2009 and included purported actual and overtime work, the AGO said.
It added that the falsified work time sheet accrued 220 hours, and the amount involved was $4,542.92.
The AGO said Sebangiol, as lead instructor and in sole custody of funds belonging to the basic life support for healthcare provider training, obtained the amount of $4,971 from the enrollees from April 14, 2005 up to Jan. 14, 2010.
