In Karakalpakstan, it was found that budget funds of 14.2 billion soums were unjustified

The press service of the Accounts Chamber reported that budget funds in Karakalpakstan were decentralized in an unreasonable way.

According to Article 26 of the Budget code, the report on the implementation of local budgets in 2022 was subject to external audit and evaluation. It was studied in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, where suspicious cases were observed in external audits and remote risk-analysis.

The study found that the Ministry of Economy and finance of Karakalpakstan unreasonably concentrated funds in the process of forming a cost estimate, without allocating them to budget organizations, and then redistributed them to other directions.

The study also found that there was a financial error and shortfall of Rs 14.2 billion when a competitive expenditure of Rs 102 billion from centralized funds was investigated. In particular, in the performance of construction and repair work worth 71.2 billion soums, unreasonable surpluses of 7.5 billion soums were received, and in the case of poor-quality work, fixed assets and commodity assets worth 30.8 billion soums were purchased at an expensive price of 6.7 billion soums.

According to the report of the Accounts Chamber, a directive was sent to the Council of Ministers of the Ministry of Economy and finance, the Republic of Karakalpakstan on the implementation of the measures established by the legislation and the implementation of appropriate measures to avoid further violations.

Also, documents formalized on the study were submitted to the prosecutor general's office for a legal assessment.