#audit office

The assignment of army conscripts to ‘easy’ posts appears to be based not on merit, but rather on a soldier’s family background and connections, the auditor-general said in a ...

The building of the legal service of a state is a point of reference in the capital and must have a high aesthetic image and functionality, the architect Eleni Pattichis, ...

Theodosis Tsolias, the finance ministry’s directorate of growth head and former cabinet secretary, has rubbished claims he should quit after taking leave to work in Luxembourg. Tsiolas took leave ...

The audit office is investigating a complaint that claims President Nikos Christodoulides received substantial benefits past his post between 2013 and 2018, while he was working at the presidential palace. Audit office ...

The auditor office said on Monday that health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki’s Egyptian dentistry degree is “authentic”, after weeks of speculation over its validity. The speculation reached fever ...

Staffers at the state broadcaster CyBC have been promoted despite not having a recognised university degree or sufficient foreign language fluency, the audit office charged in a letter that went ...

Failing to stick to criteria in existing legislation has led to varying decisions being made on a case-by-case basis in usage of Turkish Cypriot properties, the audit office said on ...

More than €2 billion in taxes are owed to the state, of which €668 million is at risk of never being received, the Audit Office said in a report released Tuesday. In ...

Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Monday delivered a stinging verbal attack on the auditor-general, whom he accused of a deliberate and concerted campaign to blacken his name, vowing that he ...

A team of experts will be flying to Cyprus early in June after the audit service filed a complaint about the defence ministry’s refusal to share documents connected to ...

The audit service slammed the environment department in a report on Friday, accusing it of not doing everything it could over the jetty construction at Paralimni marina. The findings detail ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday assured that nothing will be done outside the law after the audit office lambasted the deputy tourism minister’s decision to appoint a 19-year-old without ...

At the end of last year, and after the University of Cyprus (UCy) had formally filed its budget request for €81.2 million, it later requested an additional €58.5 million, the Audit Office ...

There are “omissions and gaps” in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties with only 65 per cent of them have been granted to refugees, data from the audit office reports showed ...

The Audit Office on Monday said it would report the finance ministry to the EU Commission over the way it handled two contracts related to the Hermes airports concession agreements. ...

The permanent secretary of the finance ministry George Panteli has sent a letter demanding that the attorney-general investigates auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides for allegedly leaking false information and disclosing state secrets. ...

The audit service on Monday sounded the alarm over explosives stored in an area surrounded by homes. The warning was included in a report on the defence ministry, which outlined ...

The forestry department has broken the law in the way in which it acquired firefighting helicopters, the auditor general said in his report on Wednesday. The service called on the ...

A string of irregularities at the agriculture ministry – including outright unlawful commercial developments within the Natura 2000 protected area, suspect payments of state grants, and even one case where the minister ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday called for an overhaul of the way in which the state provides grants to various entities, as in many cases taxpayer money appeared to disappear ...

The interior ministry on Sunday criticised the audit office for not following prescribed procedures in requesting files. The announcement came a day after the audit office tweeted that it had ...

The education ministry did not fully comply with the provisions of laws on the granting and management of funds to school boards, according to the audit office’s latest report ...

The audit office on Friday said that all political parties had failed to comply with laws governing their income and spending statements for the years 2012-2015. The report cites failures ...

The auditor-general’s office on Tuesday called suggestions it leaked reports on irregularities in the leasing of firefighting helicopters to the press as “absurd”. The office is carrying out an ...