Financial Irregularities in the Economic Sector
This article reports SAACB findings of irregularities at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), including duplicate allowance payments from donor project accounts, failure to submit tax withholding statements to the Ministry of Finance, and non-competitive hires.
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· Violations -- Central Bureau of Statistics
· State Audit and Administrative Control Bureau (SAACB) financial and administrative report for 2018..Part Six
- Irregularities in disbursements under the allowances item, where an amount of 7 million shekels was disbursed as allowances to the Bureau’s employees during the period 2012–2016 from project accounts transferred from donor entities, in addition to their salaries from the Ministry of Finance.
- It was shown that the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) did not submit statements of salary and allowance withholdings for income tax to the Ministry of Finance.
- Duplication of some employees’ names among recipients of allowances from more than one project..
Irregularities in the appointment process within the Bureau, where hires were made directly without announcing the positions or holding competitions, contrary to the Civil Service Law and its instructions..
· The Bureau considered the Bureau’s responses and justifications for its violations to be unconvincing and insufficient...
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Financial Irregularities in the Economic Sector” (English translation of «مخالفات ماليه في قطاع الاقتصاد», originally published 15 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/financial-irregularities-in-the-economic-sector-3
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