An unnamed SaskTel employee charged $18,558.30 of personal items to a corporate credit card and failed to repay the outstanding sum, according to the latest Crown Investment Corporation (CIC) loss report..The employee charged the items to the credit card starting in November 2021 and to February 2022..The CIC media release said that the security team tried to meet with the employee to explain the charges on March 1, 2022. .The employee refused to have a meeting, and the CIC fired the employee “with cause” the next day, March 2, 2022..The incident was reported to the police, and the CIC withheld the employee’s final pay cheque of $3,633.99..The media release said the CIC “will review and pursue litigation options as necessary.”.CIC has implemented a new policy to avoid this type of incident in the future..“Failure to submit corporate visa expenses, within two weeks of the credit card statement date, will result in the credit card being temporarily locked until expenses are submitted and approved by employee’s direct manager,” said the loss report..This “loss of public money” was the only loss between January 1, 2022, and March 31, 2022..Chris Oldcorn is a Western Standard Reporter based in Regina.coldcorn@westernstandard.news.Twitter: @chrisoldcorn.Parler: @chrisoldcorn
