The office of the Joint Director General, Intelligence Bureau, Lahore did not produce any record for the expenditure of Rs 18.4 million on 67 vehicles before federal audit authorities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The audit report 2010-11 on the accounts of federal government (civil) for the fiscal year 2009-10 exclusively available to Pakistan Today reveals that that the office of the Joint Director General under the administrative control of Cabinet Division, did not produce the record of 67 government vehicles before the office of director general, federal audit.
The record involved expenditure of Rs 18.4 million on POL and maintenance of vehicles. The record was also not produced in Audit Year 2008-09, says the report. “In the absence of record, the propriety and probity of expenditure could not be ascertained and it creates doubts as to the actual existence of any such record at all, which may make the public money vulnerable to misuse,” says the report.
Citing section 14 of Auditor-General’s (functions, powers and terms and conditions of service) Ordinance 2001, audit authorities have recommended that responsibility be fixed, disciplinary action be initiated against officials responsible for this lapse under relevant Efficiency and Disciplinary Rules.
