The Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan continues the practice of open meetings with the public

Chairman of the Internal State Audit Committee Yerzhan Mynzhasarov held an online meeting with citizens of the region in Zhambyl region.

During the meeting, the head of the agency announced the results of its activities for the first nine months of this year. The committee and its regional departments conducted 905 inspections, covering more than 2 trillion tenge. Despite the decrease in the number of inspections, violations amounting to 348.3 billion tenge were identified, which is 34% more than a year earlier, while desk audits covered 350,000 public procurement procedures worth 12.4 trillion tenge, preventing violations amounting to 1.3 trillion tenge. Violations amounting to 310.4 billion tenge were eliminated, and 4.8 billion tenge was returned to the budget.

In addition, the Committee has implemented the "Online Budget Monitoring" tool, which allows real-time monitoring of salary payments in the social sector. Since the beginning of the year, illegal payments of 1.4 billion tenge have been identified, of which 63% has already been returned to the budget. This was the result of the introduction of a risk-based approach.

Among the innovations is the introduction of a "pyramid audit" that covers the entire path of budget funds from the program administrator to the final recipient. Thus, in the field of agriculture, inappropriate expenditures of 22.8 billion tenge were identified, including expenditures for non-specific purposes.

During the meeting, an open dialogue took place with the residents of the region. The participants asked questions to which comprehensive answers were given.

"We are strengthening the digitalization of state audit, introducing modern analytical tools and making the audit transparent and understandable to the public," Yerzhan Mynzhasarov emphasized.