#audit service

The unannounced inspections carried out by audit service officials at the accident and emergency departments of Limassol and Nicosia general hospital on October 1 marked a “flagrant abuse of power”, doctors’ ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been appointed by President NiKos Christodoulides, but this did not stop him slamming the government’s proposals for the radical reform of the audit service. ...

The audit service on Monday published a report flagging mismanagement and oversights by the forestry department in managing four contracts as part of the sustainable development plan for the Akamas ...

Piles of office furniture and box files labelled “Audit Service” were reported as having been discovered discarded in a field in Geri on Friday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, ...

The Cyprus state scholarships foundation (Ikyk) has reportedly spent the last 15 years renting out a building valued at €615,000 for as little as €500 per month to the law firm which used ...

Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Sunday called for an independent investigation into auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides. In an interview with newspaper Kathimerini, he said “any sane thinking person would demand to ...

The Audit service on Tuesday raised concerns regarding deferments granted to young men who would otherwise have been conscripted into the National guard. In a report on the matter, it ...

The audit service said on Tuesday its job was to monitor all government spending, hitting back at a Greek Cypriot website that questioned its authority over defence ministry and national ...

MPs piled on the pressure to Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Wednesday to come clean over the contentious investigation on the Akamas road works. The topic has been cause for ...

The attorney-general’s office irregularly authorised an out-of-court settlement with a company that saddled the Cypriot taxpayer with €700,000, while separately failing to pay VAT for services rendered to it by ...

The tender procedure for a €34 million of software the accountant general’s office wanted to roll out appears to have failed to adhere to regulations, an auditor-general’s report published ...

The current legislative framework does not ensure the financial independence of the audit service, which is being stymied by the executive branch, it said yesterday in its annual report. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday denied allegations the government has embarked on an “orchestrated effort” to undermine the audit service. He was commenting after the audit service had earlier published ...

Relations between the government and the audit service are not in crisis, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Letymbiotis’ comments come after a report by the service on Thursday ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Nikolaos Prakas The audit service and the presidential palace were sparring again on Thursday, after the former released special report saying use of service vehicles to ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas The interior ministry said on Thursday that they agree on the recommendations for stricter checks made in an audit office report on golden visa ...

Every single employee at the Presidential palace will have their overtime payments examined by the audit service, following on from recent controversies surrounding payments made to deputy government spokesperson Doxa ...

The defence ministry has handed over all the relevant information regarding deferrals of military service, a spokesman has told the Cyprus Mail. The files, which include the details of every ...

The audit service has undertaken an examination of the feasibility of the EuroAsia Interconnector project, it emerged on Thursday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning programme, the spokesman for the audit ...

A large number of Turkish Cypriot properties on the island are currently mismanaged, the audit service said in a special report on Wednesday. The report, available on the audit service’...

The audit service is engaging in character assassination and overstepping the limits of free speech, Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides said on Tuesday, as the two offices continued to exchange barbs. “We ...

The auditor-general and the attorney-general continued to tangle on Thursday over the status of the latter, and what Europe’s premier anti-corruption body has to say on the issue, on ...

The audit service on Wednesday said it would report the defence ministry and national guard to the international organisation of supreme audit institutions over its refusal to hand over documents ...

Deputy prison director Athena Demetriou will be seconded to the audit service, it emerged on Wednesday. Spokesman for the audit service Marior Petrides told CNA they were waiting for the ...