During the meeting the Accounts Committee noted the failure of Akim of Almaty oblast

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Almatinskaya During the meeting the Accounts Committee noted the failure of Akim of Almaty oblast in relation to taking the necessary measures to reach the final results on the commitments taken in the framework of agreements on specific transfers as well as to the lack of an integrated approach to the budget planning issues.
Specific transfers allocated by the local authorities for the socio-economic development of the area are used inefficiently. The facts of untimely transfers for the development of regional budgets are revealed. Akims of Taldykorgan and Kapshagay, Alakol and Talgar regions delayed the conclusion of agreements on specific transfers for a total sum of 881.5 million tenge. The total amount of specific transfers unspent in 2011-2012 reached 1 bln.tenge.
Measures stipulated by the agreements on the results of the specific transfers concerning the development of housing and communal services systems, providing the population with the centralized water supply are not fully executed. Thus, because of the fact that in Ucharal of the Alakol region the budgetary funds were unspent, 11 000 people were not supplied with drinking water. Implementation of a number of budgetary investment projects is fulfilled without the permission of the authorized body to perform construction and assembly works. The facts of spending the national budget for the implementation of investment projects on construction of engineering infrastructure in the satellite towns of Almaty, as well as on construction of apartment complexes being built with the participation of real estate investors who are not provided with land plots secured in accordance with the legislation are determined. Also the facts of spending the national budget for the implementation of investment projects on transfer of funds to the contracting organizations for the undone amount of work as well as for the late delivery of equipment for educational facilities are revealed.
Department of the customs control systematically violates the order of the funds transfer to the national budget and of the refund of the sums of the customs guarantee. The procedure of personal accounts keeping is not followed, confirmations about the excessively (wrongly) paid amounts of customs duties and taxes are issued out of time.
Following the meeting, Akim of Almaty oblast was directed to take measures to eliminate violations found, to consider the responsibility of officials who have admitted similar violations as well as to perform a number of other commissions.
The Accounts Committee to control the execution of the national budget is the highest financial control body which is directly subordinate and reporting to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Committee performs an external monitoring and provides for the evaluation of the national budget's execution, way of the national programs' implementation, strategic plans of the central government bodies. It controls the usage of the national financial resources allocated to the subjects of the quasi-national sector. It also analyses the efficiency of grants and assets of the state, government guaranteed loan as well as controls the proper use of the National Bank's assets.

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