The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) in Al-Bayda city, eastern Libya, issued on Tuesday its annual report for 2017, which detected numerous irregularities and corruption-related issues, including tax evasion and corporate manipulation of tax disclosures and accounts.
According to the findings of the 2017 report, Libya’s National Commercial Bank dispensed salaries to 59 employees of the bank’s branch in Benghazi who did not have national IDs.
The eastern-based Interim Government spent more than LYD 600,000 on travel expenses of a person who does not have an official status, while there are more than 200 cases filed against the Interim Government and some of its ministries, the ACA report found.
Other violations were monitored by ACA within the Interim Government include the purchase of a car worth LYD 445,000 for the head of the government’s office in the southern region, and the failure of financial observers affiliated to the Ministry of Finance in the Interim Government to deliver money they had collected by the end of their mandate.
The report also addressed irregularities of some Tax Department’s branches that did not deliver the collected taxes to the general revenue account, in addition to about 87 employees in the Foreign Ministry who were found holding two or more positions simultaneously, and dozens of state employees who did not have official documents.
The report also noted that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs bought 48 flight tickets without any assignments or officials tasks.
Libya’s state revenues in 2017 reached LYD 22 billion, up from LYD nine billion in 2016 and LYD 11 billion in 2015. The state budget deficit was made up by advances from the Central Bank of Libya, which has now reached LYD 58 billion.
