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The Communications Department of the General Auditing Commission (GAC) has reacted to an invitation extended to the Auditor General of Liberia, Hon. John S. Morlu, by House Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditure for a hearing on GAC Audit of the Sale of Buchanan Iron Ore. It is unusual that the House Committee’s invitation to the hearing was extended on the very date that the hearing was scheduled.

The General Auditing Commission (GAC) is conducting properties audit of all government assets, including land, buildings, plants and equipment and investments owned in and out of the country by the Government of Liberia.

GAC indicates that the intent and purpose of the audit is among other things to establish a viable data base and Balance Sheet for the Republic of Liberia and to also assist the Government in instituting measures that will procure and prevent public properties from illegitimate ownership.

As part of the General Auditing Commission’s statutory obligation to conduct specialized investigative and forensic audits where public monies are at risk, either because they are siphoned, misapplied or misappropriated, the Commission has hired the services of Mrs. Meredith DeKalb Miller, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) certified handwriting and document examiner expert to work with the Commission‘s auditors in finalizing the special audit of the fraudulent transfer of US$1,171,751.

The forensic expert, who is expected to arrive in the country this weekend, specializes in analyzing, comparing, and evaluating documentary evidence and providing an expert opinion regarding a document's originality or authenticity.