The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has released its Annual Audit Report 2011 this week and has ranked at least three ministries to top the unsolved financial irregularities. The total unsolved irregularities for 2011 and up to Feb 15 amounted Nu 770.1 million.
- Ugen Chewang, the Auditor General of Bhutan
The report, which was submitted to the King, Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley and the National Assembly Speaker Jigme Tshultim on May 18 based on the constitutional requirement, found that Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Ministry of Human Settlement (MoHS) have the highest unsolved financial irregularities in 2011.
According to the report, unsolved financial irregularities included Nu 234.6 m for MoIC, Nu 202.7 m for MoFA and 72.5 m for MoHS.
“The report contains significant unresolved issues pertaining to audit reports issued during 2011,” stated the RAA in its official website.
RAA also claimed that the Annual Audit Report was circulated to all the agencies concerned for their comments during January and February 2012 in line with Section 75(c) of the Audit Act of Bhutan 2006 and was finalized giving due consideration to the responses received from the concerned agencies.
