六源流学校拨款少1.5亿,教育部长和官员应被控刑事失信。
《刑事法典》第405条条文表示,管理人若未能依照原本的委托协议处理资产,就已犯下刑事失信罪[1]。而第409条条文更表示,若犯下刑事失信罪的人是政府官员,那么一旦罪成,可被判监禁至少两年但不超过20年、鞭刑和罚款[2]。
不仅如此,《刑事法典》第409A条文更说明,纵使有关资产是在公开的情况下被挪用、或者挪用明细有被清楚记录在账,都不足成为脱罪的辩护[3]。
《刑事法典》第409B条文更说明也强调,一旦证明资产的处理已经违背了原来的用途,那么有关人士就会被判定为“不诚实”,直到他们可以证明自己没有不诚[4]。
政府拨款的用途已被清楚的记录在2015年财政预算案和纳吉的演讲中。一旦在国会通过,就是国家的法律。就算面对紧急状况金钱的用途必需有所更动,正确的管道是在国会提成附加财政预算案。可是在2015年的附加财政预算案中,教育部却没有这么做。官员擅自挪用六个源流的学校拨款,很显然已经犯下了“刑事失信罪”。
在这个“1.5亿拨款被挪用”的事件中,我们也需要教育部清楚交代一下几点:
第一,赈灾工作是由首相署部长沙希旦负责,为什么会动用到教育部的钱?抑或,其他部门也有挪用拨款来应对赈灾?
第二,就算需要动用教育部的钱来赈灾,为什么不是所有教育部底下的单位和部门共同承担这笔开销?
2015年,教育部所获得的总拨款是408.5亿。如果让整个教育部一起承担这笔1.5亿的赈灾基金,每个单位和部门所得拨款只需减少0.4%即可。可是如今,六个源流的拨款却是缩水高达60%!这六个源流的学校常年面对经费问题已是众所周知,而教育部官员却偏偏拿他们来开刀,这是极度不公平的做法。
教育部长必需对这起事件做出明确交代,就算拨款最后被追回,也必需看到有关官员被严惩,否则,纳吉的财政预算案演讲和国会议员挑夜灯辩论财政预算案,都成了笑话!
资料来源:
[1] Section 405 of the Pecal Code: “Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property either solely or jointly with any other person dishonestly misappropriates, or converts to his own use, that property, or dishonestly uses or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged, or of any legal contract, express or implied, which he has made touching the discharge of such trust, or wilfully suffers any other person so to do, commits “criminal breach of trust”.”
[2] Criminal breach of trust by public servant or agent
Section 409. Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, in his capacity of a public servant or an agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years and not more than twenty years and with whipping, and shall also be liable to fine.
[3] Section 409A. It is no defence for any offence prescribed in sections 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408 and 409 to show that the property was openly appropriated or that the appropriation was duly recorded and entered in the books and accounts of any company or association or body of person whether incorporated or not.
[4] Section 409B. (1) Where in any proceeding it is proved— (a) for any offence prescribed in sections 403 and 404, that any person had misappropriated any property; or (b) for any offence prescribed in sections 405, 406, 407, 408 and 409, that any person entrusted with property or with dominion over property had—
(i) misappropriated that property;
(ii) used or disposed of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged or of any legal contract, express or implied which he had made touching the discharge of such trust; or
(iii) suffered any person to do any of the acts described in subparagraph (i) or (ii) above,
it shall be presumed that he had acted dishonestly until the contrary is proved.
| 民主行动党全国副宣传秘书兼古来国会议员张念群 于2015年11月5日(星期四)在吉隆坡发表的文告 |