Some 234 million were payments of unidentified personnel in the budget executions of the UERS

RD$234,651,192 amounted to the payments of unidentified personnel in the budgetary executions of the Rural and Sub-Urban Electrification Unit (UERS) that were made between 2016 and 2020.

The Chamber of Accounts determined this amount from a analysis carried out on the documentation received for remuneration payments, based on a list of checks provided in digital format and corresponding to the audited period.

Among the checks, the auditing body found the amount of RD$234,651,192, “which cannot be identified in the budget executions of expenses, despite being registered in the SAP system”.

In the list of checks paid in the personal service account, registered in the SAP system for the years 2016-2020, it is observed that the highest figure was reached in the last year: RD$163,174,989. However, between the four previous years the amount varies between 13 and 23 million.

It should be noted, the auditors indicate in the special report made to this organization and published this Monday afternoon, that said checks were not physically supplied for verification and validation with their respective supporting documents.

In response to this finding by the auditing body, Thelma Eusebio, former general director of the UERS, stated in a communication: "The checks issued by the SAP system, corresponding to the personal services account, may be employee benefit paymentsor from employees who did not yet have an account to pay for Data Reservations”.

In both cases, according to Eusebio, these payments are reflected in the budget execution, since it was worked in the UERS Budget Management, with the printed payroll data, which religiously had to be sent from the person responsible for working the payroll to budget management.

“Because before the 10th of each month, the closing of the immediately previous month had to be done and the information required by Institutional Transparency and the CDEEE Comptroller, who in turn sent it to the Comptroller General of the Republic, had to be sent."adds in a letter signed on November 30, 2021.

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Likewise, it highlighted that the budget executions (accrued and received) and the state of origin and application of the funds, were sent to the also defunct Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies (CDEEE), by internal mail, during the first 5 days of the following month.

“Likewise, the UERS budget executions have annexes, the details of each of the daily movements, corresponding to the administrative and financial activities of the institution that affected the budget, details that rested in the files, UERS, of which at the time After the audit we no longer had access, since the files, which goes without saying, were very well organized physically and also digitized,” Eusebio added in the statement.

However, the auditors stated in the report that in the supporting documentation, Eusebio did not send the executions or the movement of the checks registered in the SAP system with the indications that demonstrate that said payments are registered in the budgetary execution of the expense.

Another of the findings of the Chamber of Accounts was the absence of regulations for the expenditure of labor benefits or “seniority premiums”. For this concept, the entity spent an amount of RDS176,833,735 between 2012 and 2020, without evidence of an approved internal regulation for said benefits.

Employees benefited from this compensation could not be identified in the payroll because they are not classified by object of expense.

 

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