The audit report of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) for the financial year 2010 has found that the office spent a total of Rf145,596 (US$9,706) in violation of the Public Finance Act.
In the report made public yesterday, Auditor General Ibrahim Niyaz revealed that the PGO spent Rf 40,745 (US$2640) in additional expenses for interior design after moving to its new offices without an agreement on price and quality of the work as required by section 8.21 of the public finance regulations.
In addition, the PGO spent Rf 58,913 (US$3800) out of its 2010 budget to settle outstanding bills from 2009 without requesting the funds from the Finance Ministry in the duration stipulated in the Public Finance Act.
Moreover, the PGO spent Rf45,938 (US$3000) on an official dinner to participants of an e-crime conference participants in June 2010 without a publicly-announced bidding process.
In an issue highlighted in previous audit reports of state institutions for 2010, the Auditor General noted that financial statements were not prepared in accordance with international public sector accounting standards (IPSAS) following principles of “accrual accounting” or the “financial reporting under cash basis of accounting” issued by the IPSAS board.
The PGO however informed auditors that it would discuss the issue with the Finance Ministry to prepare financial statements in accordance with international standards in the future.
Attorney General’s Office
Meanwhile the audit report of the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) published along with the PGO audit report, the Auditor General noted that staff were paid overtime salary for the time spent waiting in a queue to sign out at the fingerprint system at the end of working hours.
The audit report also found that the Attorney General’s Office had not settled bills for services obtained from different parties within the duration stipulated in the public fiance regulations.
The AG Office was meanwhile owed a total of Rf 71,637 (US$4640) from different parties dating from 2009 but had not taken adequate efforts to recover the money, the audit found, adding that the cases had not been filed at court two years on.
A comparatively high amount of money had meanwhile been spent since 2002 for a software installed to maintain records of employees and case files, the audit found, noting that Rf1.5 million (US$100,000) had been spent as of last year to the company that created the software for maintenance fees, upgrades and other expenses.
The AGO informed auditors that the software initially purchased for Rf376,200 (US$24,000) would not be used from next year onward.
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...multiparty = democracy = division = corruption = poverty.
we asked for it.
There is more corruption in the civil service. Some Permanent secretaries who are handpicked during maumoons last days, use the offices as personal property, giving contracts to friends and relatives. just ask budget people in some offices
Maumoon, gamin, ilyas and all their relatives combined has raped the country's finances and today we somehow or other think its ok and run after the people who over threw them from their power seat.
Anni is talking about housing, lower living costs, drug reduction - he is achieving much more than maumoon has achieve in 30 years time.
but yet we somehow accept him to create another political party and act all so innocent.
my god what a roller coaster ride this maldives is.
140 thousand Rf!! Really!!it's unbelievable, we have simple tuition teachers and candidates who can't afford to buy campaign posters buying 4 to 7 million Rf lands in a matter of 2 years after wining public office.
Anti Corruption Commission is simply a mockery to justice. The focus is given to simple irregularities such as these to avoid attention to larger corruption that happens everyday.
It's really sad.