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FROM
CUBA
Audits
reveal multiple irregularities in Cuba's public
sector
HAVANA, Cuba, August 15 (www.cubanet.org) Nineteen
recent audits of public-sector enterprises by
the Ministry of Auditing and Control in Holguín
province have uncovered multiple irregularities,
prompting government officials to call for better
controls.
The long list of problems uncovered by the audits
includes issuance of blank checks, unauthorized
exchange of productive means between enterprises,
payroll padding to embezzle salaries, procurement
of raw materials and manufactured goods from unauthorized
vendors, outright fraud in computerized accounting
systems, lack of adequate information security,
and foremost, the improper use of material and
financial resources, the notorious "diversions,"
so called because purloined, stolen, or embezzled
valuables are said to be "diverted"
from the intended use.
Perhaps most worrisome, the audits returned ample
evidence that the very officials who are supposed
to enforce norms and regulations are misinformed
or ignorant about them. Manuals of rules and regulations
are mostly non-existent.
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