10 December 2009
Supreme Audit Court (SAC) Director Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the SAC monitors the Oil Ministry's revenues deposited into the Treasury on a monthly basis.
Speaking at a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Fazli pledged that there would not be a repetition of incidents like the $1 billion in oil revenues that the Oil Ministry apparently failed to deposit into the Treasury.
In September, SAC reported that the Oil Ministry failed to deposit $1.05 billion in surplus oil revenues for March 2008-2009 into the Treasury.
Asked why SAC reported the case as if the money had gone missing, Fazli said he was not in charge of SAC at that time.
He stated that the case was mentioned in a report presented to the Majlis and the report neither called it fraud nor said the money was missing, but only referred to it as "a deficit in the account".
And in the 2009 presidential election campaign, the issue was raised by some people who were uninformed and certain people who were biased, he added.
Asked whether Transparency International's recent report on administrative corruption in Iran corresponds to the findings of the Supreme Audit Court, Fazli said the report is based on criteria that the SAC does not recognize.
"This does not mean that Iran rejects the report and the country should make efforts to fulfill their criteria," he said.
Supreme Audit Court (SAC) Director Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the SAC monitors the Oil Ministry's revenues deposited into the Treasury on a monthly basis.
Speaking at a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Fazli pledged that there would not be a repetition of incidents like the $1 billion in oil revenues that the Oil Ministry apparently failed to deposit into the Treasury.
In September, SAC reported that the Oil Ministry failed to deposit $1.05 billion in surplus oil revenues for March 2008-2009 into the Treasury.
Asked why SAC reported the case as if the money had gone missing, Fazli said he was not in charge of SAC at that time.
He stated that the case was mentioned in a report presented to the Majlis and the report neither called it fraud nor said the money was missing, but only referred to it as "a deficit in the account".
And in the 2009 presidential election campaign, the issue was raised by some people who were uninformed and certain people who were biased, he added.
Asked whether Transparency International's recent report on administrative corruption in Iran corresponds to the findings of the Supreme Audit Court, Fazli said the report is based on criteria that the SAC does not recognize.
"This does not mean that Iran rejects the report and the country should make efforts to fulfill their criteria," he said.
© Iran Daily 2009
