“Responding to requests for procurement fraud training from Insular Areas public auditors and Government officials, OIG senior officials traveled to the insular areas to solidify relationship-building efforts and to provide training on procurement processes, procurement fraud schemes, and investigative tools and methodology,” said OIG in part of its semiannual report to Congress, which covers the period of April to September 2011.
Members of the group provided training at multiple locations in two Federated States of Micronesia (Yap and Pohnpei), Guam, and American Samoa, the report says.
“These efforts raised awareness of the importance of internal controls, oversight, and transparency in detecting and preventing fraud in the use of all funds,” says OIG.
