translated from Spanish: Comptroller objected to US$1.35 billion state expenses in 2019

The Comptroller General released on Monday a report with the main audit results in 2019, a monitoring work that involved 543,536 hours in 4,015 audits.
External control work was carried out by 648 national officials and resulted in the formulation of 13,928 observations.
During 2019, the Comptroller audited 12 sectors, including the municipal sector, with 1,743 audit products. It is followed by the infrastructure sector, with 541 products; Health, with 472; Interior, with 291; Defense, with 185; education with 166.
In total, the Comptroller’s Dayman objected last year to $1,060,974,360,397, which equates to about $1.35 billion as of today.
Among the main weaknesses were non-compliances with accounting or budgetary rules (more than $835 billion was objected to in this item alone), breaches or modifications of contracts, improper or uncomp endorsed expenses, errors in fund management and weak account reditions, among other aspects.
The largest amounts objected to are the Internal sector, where 1,308 observations were made, 50% classified as “highly complex” and “complex”, i.e. observations that have serious irregularities associated with funds, probity, loss of resources, possible commission of crimes, serious impact on equity, serious control weaknesses, among others.

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