The general controller of the Republic, Lic. Víctor Grimaldi, has submitted 51 reports on audits of government institutions that were undertaken by controllers before him and that were still on file. He said many of them are three years old. The audits were found as a result of a process of office reorganization. The audits include those of the Central Bank, the Consejo Estatal del Azúcar, the Centro Dominicano de Promoción de Exportaciones, income tax offices, the department of the Superintendent of Banks, the Instituto de Auxilio y Viviendas, the Corporación de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Santo Domingo, the Cámara de Diputados, Rosario Dominicana and many more, covering various periods. For instance, he said that he has handed to the Central Bank the results of an audit carried out on it covering the period January 1990-December 1993. He is following the established procedure which requires that the institutions audited should receive a copy of the report. Another of the audits was carried out at the CEA, and covered the period October 1991 to September 1992. He said that the results of an audit of the CDE for the period January 1993-April 1995 had also been handed over.
The controller’s actions are seen more in a political light than from a financial aspect, especially as they are being effected in the final days of the Balaguer administration.