Ministry of Interior did not follow the regulations when administering the development programme
Press Release from July 24, 2007
Auditors from the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) focused on property management of the Ministry of Interior (MIA) and their administering of the development programme called “Development and reconstruction of the material and technical bases of the service organisation of Ministry of Interior”. The property management and accounting as well as property purchase financed by the programme were found insufficient during the audit as said the president of SAO, František Dohnal.
The audited period was from 2004 to 2006, including associated data from the previous time and following period until the end of audit; audited bodies were Ministry of Interior (MI) and Service Facilities of Ministry of Interior (SFMI).
The programme has been realized since 2003 and consists of six partial programmes, four of which were audited. MI did not authorize the programme documentation till January 2006. “The documentation poorly specified material aims of the programme, nor explained details of the technical-economic reasoning or arguments for the closing evaluation. A clear concept of expected accomplishments is missing,” said Dohnal.
MIA agreed with the audit findings stating that the grant request documents were not prepared exactly enough so that particular activities would be pertinently and viably defined. There was no evidence of considered cost of investments. It was impossible to mark out whether the documented capital expenditure involved all potential aspects of the projects planned for realisation. After the scheme registrations, preliminary terms were often put off or characteristics were changed without updating the state budget contribution decrees. “Ministry neither ensured a proper data check-up of the documentation or the final project evaluation. The evaluations were finished before obligatory conditions of the state budget contribution statement might be implemented, “ said the president of SAO.
The auditing operation was included into the 2006 Annual Audit Plan of SAO under No. 06/32. Marie Hošková, Member of the Board, controlled the operation and drew up the audit report as well.
Radka Burketová
Press Speaker
Supreme Audit Office