The officers were reinstated sometime this year unknown to the public and even the Guyana Police Force which has been investigating the matter. Contacted yesterday, Postmaster General of the Guyana Post Office Corporation, Noel Phillips would not confirm whether the officers were back on the job, though he promised that a release on the matter would be issued to the public.

But other sources confirmed that the officers had been back at work since May.

As a result, the reinstated officers are apparently no longer subjects of the ongoing investigation.

The pension scam came to light when the Berbice Fraud Squad discovered a quantity of forged coupons in a house in New Amsterdam. Preliminary investigations showed that the forged coupons were cashed at fifteen post offices around the country.

The final report of the Auditor General’s (AG) findings into the $14M scam is expected by tomorrow. An officer at the AG’s office said that they were now working on the final items. According to the officer, the report would not show too many changes from the preliminary document.

He told this newspaper that, the preliminary report had shown that some $13,958,784 was stolen between the period January - October 2002, but the report did not include the months of April and May.

The final report is expected to show the level of fraudulent practices for those months along with other details.

But while the final report would be ready by tomorrow the police said they were still investigating the matter. Stabroek News was told by a senior police officer that because of the nature of the fraud, investigations had to be done at all fifteen post offices reported to be involved in the scam.

The officer said the lack of human resources along with other factors had so far delayed the process. The fraud was made public last October and subsequently 23 postal officials and three officers of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security were interdicted from duty. Seven of the postal officials escaped the jurisdiction earlier on in the investigation.

Stabroek News was told that earlier this year some of the interdicted officers had approached the management of the GPOC, stating their willingness to repay the stolen money. It is not clear how much of the $14M was repaid.

Meanwhile, those officers who have not done so as yet along with their alleged accomplices from the ministry are required to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) every day. The police had said on a number of occasions that they were investigating the matter and would press charges against the officers.

The three dismissed officers of the Ministry of Human Services and a few from the Post Office have since moved to the courts claiming that they were wrongfully dismissed.