Unconvincing accounts of the Ministry of Defence
Press Release – March 25, 2008
As said in the report from an audit, which was conducted from May 2007 to January 2008 by auditors from the Supreme Audit Office (SAO), the immovable assets of the Ministry of Defence had been accounted in an equivocate way.
The auditors focused on the ministry’s registration of the real estates, the acquisition of properties, the managing competence and leasing of the estates. The audited period extended from 2005 to 2006, the associated data from the previous or following time were also included.
"The ministry inventoried the immovable assets and obligations only as a matter of form. The real condition and state of the grounds or the uncompleted long-time tangible properties were not ascertained, nor compared with the accounts,“ said František Dohnal, president of the SAO. As he continued, the ministry did not keep proper accounts of facts that belonged to certain accounting terms, so the accountancy of the audited period was incomplete.
"In 2005 and 2006, the ministry showed improper account balances as they showed out grounds, which did not come under its authority. Several times, grounds and estates were multiplied in the books and some were not found in the real estate cadastre,“ said Dohnal.
The auditing operation was included into the 2007 Audit Plan of the SAO under No. 07/14. Zdeňka Profeldová, Member of the SAO Board, controlled the operation and drew up the audit report as well.
Radka Burketová
Press Speaker
Supreme Audit Office