一个25岁的救世军(Salvation ArmY)的会计ACCOUNTANT,人家给他工资41000,竟然贪污230万加币的善款
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060131.wxarmy31/BNStory/National
很多华人找ACCOUNTANT工作很不容易,很多人在打7-8块一小时的工,他这个老鼠屎,真是做孽啊.Salvation Army believes it is the young accountant, may have had a crisis of conscience and tipped off the charity.
这个MING WA的怎么走上犯罪道路的?他25岁能拿$41000/Y ACCOUNTANT的工作.CBC,移民,还是小留?
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Accountant at centre of Salvation Army fraud
$2.3-million scheme was unnoticed, charity saYS
By GREG MCARTHUR
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Posted at 4:51 AM EST
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
TORONTO ― The Salvation Army says it has been defrauded of more than $2.3-million and that it has traced the missing money to a 25-year-old accountant who used to work at its Canadian headquarters in Toronto.
In court files obtained by The Globe and Mail, the charity states it was the victim of a phony-invoice scheme, paying millions to two non-existent companies. After launching an internal investigation late last month, the charity says it has linked the scheme to Ming Wa, an accountant who abruptly resigned a week before the fraud was uncovered.
The charity, whose Canadian branch receives about $130-million a year from donors and is known worldwide for feeding, clothing and housing the needy, is now suing Mr. Wa.
In the past two weeks, Mr. Wa has consented to judicial orders that require him to hand over to the charity all of his possessions, which include two plasma-screen televisions, hundreds of thousands of dollars remaining in his bank accounts and his $450,000 house in Markham, north of Toronto.
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According to a sworn affidavit filed by Donald Mitchell, the charity's audit director, Mr. Wa "owns or possesses" two late model BMWs -- one a sport utility vehicle and the other a car -- and was paid an annual salary of about $41,000.
Mr. Wa has not been charged with any crime, but the Toronto police fraud unit is investigating the Salvation Army's claims.
Mr. Wa was approached by a Globe reporter and photographer last week as people carried belongings from his home and placed them in a moving van. He politely declined to answer questions.
According to sworn affidavits filed in court, it appears someone, and the Salvation Army believes it is the young accountant, may have had a crisis of conscience and tipped off the charity. It wasn't until the Salvation Army was contacted by a lawyer representing an unnamed client that it realized it had been looted of a small fortune.
It was Dec. 20, and the Salvation Army's Christmas kettle campaign was only halfway to its goal of raising $1.65-million. But until that morning, when Salvation Army lawyer Bryan Campbell sat down with another lawyer, Christopher Reed, the organization had no idea just how short it truly was.
According to Mr. Campbell's affidavit, Mr. Reed said he had a client who had misappropriated more than $1-million from the charity. This mystery client wanted to return some of the money as long as the charity agreed to some conditions. Mr. Reed's client wanted an agreement that the Salvation Army would take no criminal or civil action against him; in return he would give back 40 per cent of what he had taken. The charity had to agree to keep the deal confidential, according to a copy of the proposed agreement filed with the court.
Mr. Reed said his client "felt genuinely sorry for what he did." The anonymous thief also wanted to show the organization how he stole the money so it could protect itself.
Mr. Campbell said he couldn't make any promises. He also pressed Mr. Reed: Who was this mystery client and was he connected to the charity?
Two days later, Mr. Reed called and left a message on Mr. Campbell's voicemail -- a message that pointed to an inside job.
"I have been authorized to reveal that my client is, in the broad sense that we were talking about, associated with the Army, so there is some connection to the Army," he said.
There would be no deal. The charity launched an internal audit, but it didn't know on which of its thousands of Canadian employees to zero in. Then, three days after Christmas, the charity's chief financial officer mentioned an accountant who had suddenly quit two weeks earlier.
The resignation of Ming Wa, who was responsible for reviewing invoices and ensuring they were paid, seemed to come from nowhere.
"I apologize again for the short notice with regards to resignation, however I feel that for personal reasons I have to," Mr. Wa wrote in an internal note sent at 7:05 a.m. on Dec. 14.
An auditor began poring over Mr. Wa's files and computer. Before long, he found spreadsheets that documented 35 deposits totalling $2,312,903.56. Thirty-four of the deposits matched payments the Salvation Army had made to two companies: M & M Associates and an architectural firm called Downing & Henry Architects.
It wasn't unusual for Mr. Wa to make payments to companies. What was unusual was that the companies couldn't be found. Neither was a registered corporation in any province. They weren't listed in phone books.
But the Salvation Army had a stack of invoices from the mysterious Downing & Henry. Someone from Downing & Henry named Steven Downing had completed 10 hours of "design and development" work, at $175 an hour, on the Salvation Army women's residence in Edmonton. An Allan Gilbert had done 35 hours of "electrical engineering and analysis," at $100 an hour, in Vancouver.
On Jan. 3, Salvation Army corporate controller Maisie Wong called a TD Canada Trust branch where Downing & Henry had two accounts, her affidavit states.
The person with signing authority on one of the accounts was the man who had sent her a resignation note weeks earlier: Ming Wa.
The Salvation Army has been left with a four-bedroom, two-bathroom brick house in Markham and many unanswered questions.
It has declined to comment on how this happened, citing a continuing criminal investigation.
"We're not trying to hide this in anyway," said Graham Moore, a spokesman for the charity.
Asked if the Salvation Army was worried about losing potential donors because of the fraud, he replied: "We have strong programs. We have strong controls. It was our internal audit program that initially helped uncover the fraud. It's their work that's been done since then that the police are now using in their own investigation."
When a reporter pointed out that it was the meeting with lawyer Christopher Reed that exposed the fraud, not the internal audit, Mr. Moore said he couldn't comment because it might impinge on the police investigation.
"We do see this as an unusual circumstance, not one that we can see repeating," he said.
As for Mr. Wa, he has been ordered to vacate the Markham home by today.
The Toronto police fraud unit couldn't comment, but Mr. Moore said the charity has been told the investigation will be wrapped up "not too long" from now.
With a report from Celia Donnelly
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很多华人找ACCOUNTANT工作很不容易,很多人在打7-8块一小时的工,他这个老鼠屎,真是做孽啊.Salvation Army believes it is the young accountant, may have had a crisis of conscience and tipped off the charity.
这个MING WA的怎么走上犯罪道路的?他25岁能拿$41000/Y ACCOUNTANT的工作.CBC,移民,还是小留?
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Accountant at centre of Salvation Army fraud
$2.3-million scheme was unnoticed, charity saYS
By GREG MCARTHUR
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Posted at 4:51 AM EST
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
TORONTO ― The Salvation Army says it has been defrauded of more than $2.3-million and that it has traced the missing money to a 25-year-old accountant who used to work at its Canadian headquarters in Toronto.
In court files obtained by The Globe and Mail, the charity states it was the victim of a phony-invoice scheme, paying millions to two non-existent companies. After launching an internal investigation late last month, the charity says it has linked the scheme to Ming Wa, an accountant who abruptly resigned a week before the fraud was uncovered.
The charity, whose Canadian branch receives about $130-million a year from donors and is known worldwide for feeding, clothing and housing the needy, is now suing Mr. Wa.
In the past two weeks, Mr. Wa has consented to judicial orders that require him to hand over to the charity all of his possessions, which include two plasma-screen televisions, hundreds of thousands of dollars remaining in his bank accounts and his $450,000 house in Markham, north of Toronto.
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According to a sworn affidavit filed by Donald Mitchell, the charity's audit director, Mr. Wa "owns or possesses" two late model BMWs -- one a sport utility vehicle and the other a car -- and was paid an annual salary of about $41,000.
Mr. Wa has not been charged with any crime, but the Toronto police fraud unit is investigating the Salvation Army's claims.
Mr. Wa was approached by a Globe reporter and photographer last week as people carried belongings from his home and placed them in a moving van. He politely declined to answer questions.
According to sworn affidavits filed in court, it appears someone, and the Salvation Army believes it is the young accountant, may have had a crisis of conscience and tipped off the charity. It wasn't until the Salvation Army was contacted by a lawyer representing an unnamed client that it realized it had been looted of a small fortune.
It was Dec. 20, and the Salvation Army's Christmas kettle campaign was only halfway to its goal of raising $1.65-million. But until that morning, when Salvation Army lawyer Bryan Campbell sat down with another lawyer, Christopher Reed, the organization had no idea just how short it truly was.
According to Mr. Campbell's affidavit, Mr. Reed said he had a client who had misappropriated more than $1-million from the charity. This mystery client wanted to return some of the money as long as the charity agreed to some conditions. Mr. Reed's client wanted an agreement that the Salvation Army would take no criminal or civil action against him; in return he would give back 40 per cent of what he had taken. The charity had to agree to keep the deal confidential, according to a copy of the proposed agreement filed with the court.
Mr. Reed said his client "felt genuinely sorry for what he did." The anonymous thief also wanted to show the organization how he stole the money so it could protect itself.
Mr. Campbell said he couldn't make any promises. He also pressed Mr. Reed: Who was this mystery client and was he connected to the charity?
Two days later, Mr. Reed called and left a message on Mr. Campbell's voicemail -- a message that pointed to an inside job.
"I have been authorized to reveal that my client is, in the broad sense that we were talking about, associated with the Army, so there is some connection to the Army," he said.
There would be no deal. The charity launched an internal audit, but it didn't know on which of its thousands of Canadian employees to zero in. Then, three days after Christmas, the charity's chief financial officer mentioned an accountant who had suddenly quit two weeks earlier.
The resignation of Ming Wa, who was responsible for reviewing invoices and ensuring they were paid, seemed to come from nowhere.
"I apologize again for the short notice with regards to resignation, however I feel that for personal reasons I have to," Mr. Wa wrote in an internal note sent at 7:05 a.m. on Dec. 14.
An auditor began poring over Mr. Wa's files and computer. Before long, he found spreadsheets that documented 35 deposits totalling $2,312,903.56. Thirty-four of the deposits matched payments the Salvation Army had made to two companies: M & M Associates and an architectural firm called Downing & Henry Architects.
It wasn't unusual for Mr. Wa to make payments to companies. What was unusual was that the companies couldn't be found. Neither was a registered corporation in any province. They weren't listed in phone books.
But the Salvation Army had a stack of invoices from the mysterious Downing & Henry. Someone from Downing & Henry named Steven Downing had completed 10 hours of "design and development" work, at $175 an hour, on the Salvation Army women's residence in Edmonton. An Allan Gilbert had done 35 hours of "electrical engineering and analysis," at $100 an hour, in Vancouver.
On Jan. 3, Salvation Army corporate controller Maisie Wong called a TD Canada Trust branch where Downing & Henry had two accounts, her affidavit states.
The person with signing authority on one of the accounts was the man who had sent her a resignation note weeks earlier: Ming Wa.
The Salvation Army has been left with a four-bedroom, two-bathroom brick house in Markham and many unanswered questions.
It has declined to comment on how this happened, citing a continuing criminal investigation.
"We're not trying to hide this in anyway," said Graham Moore, a spokesman for the charity.
Asked if the Salvation Army was worried about losing potential donors because of the fraud, he replied: "We have strong programs. We have strong controls. It was our internal audit program that initially helped uncover the fraud. It's their work that's been done since then that the police are now using in their own investigation."
When a reporter pointed out that it was the meeting with lawyer Christopher Reed that exposed the fraud, not the internal audit, Mr. Moore said he couldn't comment because it might impinge on the police investigation.
"We do see this as an unusual circumstance, not one that we can see repeating," he said.
As for Mr. Wa, he has been ordered to vacate the Markham home by today.
The Toronto police fraud unit couldn't comment, but Mr. Moore said the charity has been told the investigation will be wrapped up "not too long" from now.
With a report from Celia Donnelly
