#audit office

The Agricultural Research Institute did not follow due process when calling for tenders and may have led to contracts awarded at higher prices, the audit office said on Friday. In ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has been let off the hook for some €55,000 the audit office had called on him to return to state coffers, after the attorney-general nullified the findings former ...

Identifying irregularities in tender bidding will be a primary focus for the audit office over the next few years, auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Friday during a House finance committee ...

The government said on Monday it will set up a team of legal experts to advise on two bills relating to the planned reform of the Audit Office and the ...

Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou on Sunday pledged to create a framework to manage disagreements between the audit office and the legal service. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, he said he had been ...

The bill approved by cabinet to reform the audit office, creating a new audit board, will be submitted to the legal service for legal and technical examinations before the end ...

Media on Monday speculated on the career prospects of Odysseas Michaelides after his sacking from the post of auditor-general, with one newspaper suggesting he might author a book on the ‘...

The European Commission is “closely monitoring” the government’s planned reforms to the audit office, the commission’s acting spokeswoman for the rule of law Jordis Ferroli said on Saturday. ...

The audit office assured on Thursday it was continuing its work, after its chief was fired a day earlier. Deputy Auditor-General Kyriacos Kyriacou said audits were still continuing in the ...

The state health services (Okypy) appears to have shown blatant disregard for how it spends public funds, particularly by management who have booked fancy hotels and raked in plenty of ...

The EU’s anti-fraud office (Olaf) is investigating Cyprus’ fisheries department over a tender which the audit office on Friday said contained “unacceptable” conditions and cost €1.5 million more that the ...

A seaside walking path in Kissonerga in Paphos cost the state more than ten times its original budget and took almost two decades to complete, an audit office report revealed. ...

The government on Thursday said President Christodoulides currently receives a pension of just €600 a month, contradicting earlier reports that the amount comes to €1,000. Speaking to a television news network, deputy ...

The deputy ministry of research had violated the law in the way it ‘appointed’ companies to implement the ‘e-wallet’ service, as the process was riddled with conflicts of interest and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said Cyprus “cannot function in 2024 under the terms of 1960” in response to the audit office’s charge that the government’s plans to reform it ...

The Audit Office has not given up its quest to have the money given to some political parties ahead of the 2021 parliamentary elections returned and re-allocated to parties that were ...

The auditor-general’s office has no idea how many funds in Covid benefits were handed out to ineligible applicants from 2021 to 2022, with the real number possibly being many times more ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a set of bills which, if passed, will change the face of Cyprus’ legal service and audit office. The government says the bills constitute “modernising” reforms, ...

The University of Cyprus has been derelict in its management of a contract regarding the construction of facilities on its premises, with cost overruns expected to reach €2.6 million, the auditor-general ...

Two controversial bills aimed at introducing reforms at the legal service and audit office will be ready next month Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Thursday, amid expected backlash over ...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) on Thursday said it opened an investigation into Cyprus’ contentious Vasiliko liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on suspicion of procurement fraud, misappropriation ...

The Audit Office on Thursday hit back against a government proposal seeking to reform the independent institution, amid accusations this would be a means to stifle the reports of the ...

The European Commission on Wednesday urged Cyprus to move forward in strengthening the independence of the legal service, amid calls for convictions for high-level cases of corruption. In its 2024 Rule ...

Consistent changes in the number of members of the Cypriot delegation of the Cypriot Olympic Committee to the Games of Small States in 2023, as well as the number of flights ...