PARLIAMENT The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has identified negligence as the cause of improper payment of RM526,000 of public fund made to a consultant for the RM348 million Paya Peda Dam project in Besut, Terengganu.

The “careless” Agriculture and Agro-Based Ministry officer was let off the hook with a warning, while the consultancy firm Jurukur Jitu Runding, which received the overpaid amount, had repaid it in September 2014.