The head of the Central Agency for Financial Control (CAF) revealed on Monday a series of steps the agency has taken over the past three months to improve performance and strengthen financial oversight in Syria.
Wassim al-Mansour explained that a central committee was formed to assess the agency's situation and identify the challenges it faces. This committee resulted in three field committees that conducted visits and interviews with employees in the audit branches in Damascus, Rural Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Tartous, Latakia, Hama, Idlib, Raqqa, and Sweida.
Based on the results of these visits, new appointments were made in senior and middle management positions, in addition to holding meetings with inspectors who defected from the former regime. A number of them were reactivated in the Central Agency's branch in Aleppo, in positions including branch director and department heads, in coordination with the Ministry of Administrative Development.
Al-Mansour added that other committees were formed under the supervision of the deputies to study and amend the agency's law and organizational structure, in line with the committees' outcomes and recommendations.
Communication with international financial oversight organizations (INTOSAI and ARABOSAI) was also restored, and several technical committees of which the Syrian agency was a member were activated.
As part of modernizing and developing oversight work, Al-Mansour announced the launch of a project to automate the agency's work by designing electronic platforms, including a complaints and reporting platform and a platform dedicated to the Central Agency for Financial Control.
The agency's head confirmed that an investigation committee had been formed, from which 13 subcommittees emerged. Investigations were opened into 50 cases of corruption and waste of large sums of public funds, with the aim of recovering them to the state treasury.
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