In what must appear to many readers as a black comedy, the Diario Libre and other papers are reporting that the Chamber of Accounts now wants to audit Senator Tonty Rutinel, who recently publicly accused the Chamber of being riddled with corruption, nepotism and the buddy system. As Rutinel announced the arrival next week of an investigative team from the Interamerican Development Bank, the head of the Chamber of Accounts, Judge Maximo Castillo, sent the leaders of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies a list of specialists that will perform a financial and managerial audit of the ?Program for Institutional Reform and Modernization of the National Congress and the Chamber of Accounts? spanning the period between 16 August 2000 and 16 June 2004. The letter requests that Jesus Vasquez and Alfredo Pacheco, the leaders of the two legislative bodies, provide the Chamber with the ?widest collaboration in order to facilitate the maximum efficiency in obtaining the preservation and reasonable use of resources of the Dominican state.? Rutinel, whose request to the Senate for an audit of the Chamber of Accounts, the office that has apparently ?disappeared? RD$28 million, was rejected by his colleagues, announced yesterday that he would ask the special committee of the Senate for permission to send the documents supporting all of his claims to the Chamber of Deputies.