In addition to city institutions like schools, sports centers etc, the Kohtla-Järve’s leadership should also have the city government itself, plus its departments, audited, as their economic activities have not been analyzed in any detail in recent years, the audit office reported.
While several internal auditing measures were carried out during the period covered by the audit, mainly by the auditors of the Kohtla-Järve City Government and, less frequently, by the city legislature’s audit committee, these audits took place almost exclusively in agencies managed by the city in any case.
Ines Metsalu-Nurminen, Director of Audit of the National Audit Office, said: “It is unjustified that a city government, which has the largest procurements and the majority of the spending of the city system, including more than 60 percent of the management costs, has remained essentially untouched by internal control measures.”
The problem with the city institutions is that while they are inspected, the Kohtla-Järve leadership does not take the shortcomings they find seriously, so the same mistakes constantly recur, the audit office says.
The National Audit Office audited the internal control system of…
