Cuba to launch 8th national audit in anti-corruption efforts

Cuba to launch 8th national audit in anti-corruption efforts

Xinhua | 2013-7-5 13:40:48

By Agencies



Cuba will launch its Eighth Internal Control National Audit on Oct. 21

as part of the government's fight against corruption, a senior official

of the Comptroller General Office announced Thursday.



The one-month audit campaign will look into programs including building

materials sales in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo,

which were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy last October.



Other programs to be audited involve export subsidies, the granting of

land use permits, direct trade between farmers and tourism entities, the

implementation of the 17 recently-adopted measures on agricultural

cooperatives and state payments to private entities.



The Comptroller General Office was created by the the government of

Cuban leader Raul Castro in 2009 to fight corruption and strengthen law

enforcement in the country.



The last general audit was held six months ago, when 34 percent of the

surveyed state-run entities showed deficiencies.



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