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NT Auditor-General finds public servant credit cards used for fines, iTunes purchases
Corporate credit cards issued to Northern Territory public servants are sometimes being used for unauthorised purposes, including the payment of a traffic infringement, a parking fine and an iTunes purchase, a report by the NT Auditor-General has found.
Key points:
- Nineteen credit card transactions were identified as fraudulent
- Some payments appeared to have been split to circumvent card limits
- The Auditor-General has called for stricter rules to prevent unauthorised transactions
More than 73,000 transactions worth $16 million were processed through the NT Government’s electronic card management system in the nine months to March this year.
A small proportion of those transactions were deemed to warrant further scrutiny by the Auditor-General…
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