Over $33,000 worth of hunting and fishing licences went missing from the Thompson Sustainable Development office between 2005 and 2014.

The discovery came last week, following a special forensic audit.

The audit found that there was a weakness in record-keeping and financial controls, which allowed a clerk to siphon off an unknown amount of money.

The stolen money, according to the audit, could have been covered up with a technique known as lapping, where cheque sales are used to cover up previous cash sales in which the money was not deposited.

The report said that due to the weaknesses they could not estimate the amount of money that was misappropriated.