Before and after Past Presidents’ Council was formed

                 

Before the Past Presidents Council was formed in 2000 all expenses of entertaining foreign visitors were shared by members of the club. The president of the year will collect funds from members to defray the cost of entertaining foreign visitors.

Subsequent to forming of the PP Council and the secret bank accounts, donations and excess project funds were channeled into the secret bank accounts and this money was then used by the PP Council members to entertain foreign guests for dinner and golf games.

In fact project funds were banked directly into the secret bank accounts and no member or director asked for the accounts. All monies from Korea, Japan and LCIF were directly banked into these secret bank accounts.

Money from this account was also used to purchase fixed assets for the club and renovating the office. 

I am informed that part of the funds for the purchase of the office lot was from excess project funds.

The questions to ask are:

i.                     In which year was this PP Council formed?

ii.                   Who mooted this idea?

iii.                  Who were the members responsible for opening the secret bank accounts?

iv.                 Is there any connection between the president in the year the PP Council was formed and names of members who opened the bank accounts in Alliance Bank?

v.                   What other payments were made from the 3 secret bank accounts? 

The above questions are questions that the investigation officer may ask and make a decision on whether there is criminal breach of trust.

It would appear that this idea has come from a foreign land as I understand that many Sabah Lions Clubs began to operate in this manner only after the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu started practicing this.

We will probe this further in our next few posts.