Auditor general Ugen Chewang

“There is a growing awareness and agencies have resolved their memos well”

Nu 9.791 m

total worth of fraud and corruption.
Of which 2.276m is for dzongkhags, pertaining to payments for work not done and goods not received; similarly, Nu 2.034m for gewogs, Nu 1.624m for ministries and Nu 3m for BDFC.

Nu 118.763m

worth of shortfall and lapses.
Dzongkhags have the highest at Nu 44 m. 77 percent of mismanagement of funds is again by dzongkhags.

7 cases

forwarded to anti corruption commission
The biggest of this is Nu 1.008m worth of misappropriation and malpractice at the national jersey building centre in Samtse, followed by a Nu 0.850m misuse by a revenue assistant in Tsirang dzongkhag.

The RICBL case of loans to ST construction, against rules, without proper documents and other sundry irregularities, has been given to ACC.

Another is on Nu 211,799 siphoning of funds by an account assistant at the labour ministry, not linked to the recent VTI case. Another case is a shortage of around Nu 293,000 in Bhutan’s embassy in Bangkok.

Nu 10 m

in the ministry of agriculture is the highest irregularities in the ministries,
followed by the ministry of foreign affairs at Nu 6.1m, ministry of works and human settlement at Nu 5.8m and ministry of labour at Nu 2.4m.

Nu 21.9m

loan defaults and over financing
in BoB with Nu 3 million in overdue mortgage loans.

24.09%

is the reduction
of unresolved irregularities in 2008 as compared to 2007.

Nu 932.177m

of irregularities of which Nu 776.094m was resolved, which is 83.79 percent.

RAA recommends stronger internal audit and reporting system, better database, IT security, more engineers, proper studies for construction, review of Bhutan schedule of rates, review of community participation in developmental activities, systematic tax collection and stronger follow up on corruption.

450

audit reports were issued by RAA in 2008.