Judiciary »Important questions of the Chief Justice from the officials of the supervisory bodies regarding the allocation of preferred currencies and the transfer of state-owned companies

According to the Judiciary Public Relations Department, Hojjatoleslam and Muslims, Mohseni Ejei, Head of the Judiciary, attended the General Assembly of the Court of Accounts, referring to the serious oversight responsibility of the Court of Accounts. It is desirable and, consequently, has a comprehensive promotion of affairs.

Hojjat-ul-Islam and Muslims Mohseni Ejei continues the supervisory actions of the National Audit Office in order to review and audit the financial processes of ministries, government companies and other agencies that use the national budget in some way and take care that no expenditure exceeds the approved funds. , Appreciated and considered the programs of the Court of Audit to strengthen the supervision of financial flows, significant and important.

Hojjat al-Islam and the Aegean Muslims said: “A good law, accurate budgeting and adequate supervision can be considered as a triangle that plays a key role in good governance of the country, hence the role of the Court of Audit as a supervisory arm of the legislature.” It is very effective and decisive.

He added: “The initiative of the Court of Audit in inviting new ministers and correspondence with the ministries in order to explain the abandonment of actions, corruption points and weaknesses and strengths of the executive apparatus, and early submission of budget appropriation reports, is welcome and should be He got a good omen.

The head of the judiciary, stating that the lack of oversight mechanisms in various matters and affairs, causes the deviation of people and societies, said: Is a hallmark of “justice”; The righteous person avoids sin and crime, so in him, a supervisory mechanism is embedded as a divine deposit.

The head of the judiciary continued to strengthen cooperation between agencies and oversight bodies and considered it a very important issue and said: it is necessary for the officials of the Court of Audit with other agencies and oversight bodies, including subdivisions of the judiciary such as the Court of Administrative Justice, the General Inspectorate, Statistics Center. And Information Technology of the Judiciary and the Judiciary of Tehran Province, to hold continuous meetings and meetings and to form working groups to take advantage of each other’s capacities and thus create synergies in strengthening and developing oversight.

Hojjat-ul-Islam and Muslims Mohseni Ejei further stressed the need to strengthen the “Coordination Council of Supervisors” and determine more executive mechanisms for this council and said: “Strengthening the Coordination Council of supervisory bodies has many positive effects, including avoiding parallelism in monitoring.” , Preventing the loss of regulatory resources and blocking the escape rights of violators, citing sometimes different reports of regulatory bodies.

The Chief Justice continued by asking a few basic questions, explaining and explaining important issues and categories in the field of responsibility and the main function of the supervisory bodies and the Court of Audit overseeing the protection of the treasury.

The head of the judiciary, of course, noted that asking these questions does not mean that the Court of Audit has not performed its legal duties in this regard or has no answers to these questions, but intends to emphasize some important issues by asking a few questions.

In this regard, the head of the judiciary said: Has the Court of Audit ever provided a clear and transparent definition of the treasury for presentation to public opinion and the media?

The head of the judiciary also asked the officials of the Court of Audit whether a scientific indicator has been provided by the Court so far to measure the extent and status of the protection and preservation of the treasury?

“Is the waste of budget resources allocated to semi-finished projects an example of a budget?” This was another question that the head of the judiciary asked the officials of the Court of Audit at this meeting and said: “Definitely, construction projects should be defined in the annual budgets to the extent of their ability and financial ability, so that the accumulation of semi-finished projects and consequent waste of budget resources Do not face.

Another question that Hojjatoleslam and Muslims, Mohseni Ejei, asked the officials of the Court of Audit at this meeting was whether or not the performance and financial balance of state-owned companies to allocate annual budgets were relevant.

Accordingly, the head of the judiciary said: “If state-owned companies do not present their performance and financial balance at the time of reviewing and approving the annual budget and there is no knowledge about the financial situation of these companies, is there a right to re-allocate the budget to them?” And assuming this happens, has not the loss of the treasury occurred?

The Chief Justice further asked the officials of the Court of Audit whether, if you consider the above-mentioned cases as examples of the treasury, have you established mechanisms to follow them and do you have an indicator based on which to measure the decrease or increase of budget deviations? ?

Hojjat-ul-Islam and Muslims Mohseni Ejei addressed the members of the General Assembly of the Court of Audit added: But if the opposite is true, there must be a serious pathology of the mechanisms applied by the monitoring devices.

The head of the judiciary also referred to the issue of cases referred by the supervisory bodies, including the Court of Accounts and the Inspection Organization to the judicial authorities, and said: Special measures should be taken to identify and eliminate the existing gaps and problems.

In this meeting, in the presence of the Head of the Judiciary, a summary of the set of reports submitted by the Court of Accounts to the Islamic Consultative Assembly, including important points of budget disbursement from 1997 to 1999, transfer of state-owned companies, monetary base trend and liquidity growth. Was read.

The head of the judiciary, after presenting the report of the member of the General Board of the Court of Audit on the transfer of state-owned companies, raised the important question of whether the Court of Audit In case of non-fulfillment of obligations by the buyer, has it arrived or not? And what is the Court of Audit’s interpretation of whether this action is legal or not?

Hojjat-ul-Islam and Muslims Mohseni Ejei advised the officials of the Court of Audit to enter the above-mentioned issue directly or indirectly if it is one of their duties, because according to recent decisions on the sale of surplus government property, the issue of representation obtained from natural persons It will find more cases in the future and in some cases it can cause injuries.

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In this meeting, Mehrdad Bazarpash presented some reports and initiatives of the court during his management period and at the end, he made some requests and suggestions.

Bazrpash, while enumerating the transformational actions of the Court of Accounts in presenting the report of budget deduction in 1399, four months before the legal deadline, and monitoring the financial performance of the executive bodies this year in 2 months, from the public relations system 198 as one of the latest initiatives of the Court Calculations in the field of democratization of supervision, named and stated: Since the launch of this system in August of this year, about 50,000 telephone calls have been received from all over the country by the experts of the court, which municipalities, villages and similar devices have the highest volume of complaints. Are dedicated to themselves.

He added: “The refinement of the received public messages shows that the issue of leaving the actions of the officials has been the most frequent, and in order to solve this problem, it is necessary for the monitoring devices to have an immediate solution.”

In another part of his speech, Bazrpash, while recalling the document of interaction of the Court of Audit with the General Inspection Organization, which was concluded in order to fulfill the 8-article decree of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in fighting economic corruption, called for reviewing and updating this document for synergy. Became better and more in the face of financial corruption.

He added: “Based on the preventive policy in the Court of Audit, from the very first days of the 13th government ministers, while writing letters to the new ministers, we ignored the legal provisions and pointed out the harmful points of each ministry.” Coordination of monitoring bodies, which is the responsibility of the Infrastructure Economics Working Group on the Court of Accounts, so far we have held 3 specialized meetings with the Ministers of Oil, Jihad for Agriculture and Silence, and we will continue this process in the future.

Mehrdad Bazarpash, referring to the important issues on the agenda of the Court of Audit, named some of the topics as follows:

– How to use the land management document regarding the distribution of credits, decisions and other matters

– Review of the business licensing process subject to the law of continuous improvement of the business environment with the aim of identifying barriers and restrictions

– Examining how to create sustainable employment and allocate subsidies to support productive employment

– Investigating the process of supply and distribution of basic goods and market disruption factors

– Handling the market system and how to distribute livestock inputs

– Investigation of overdraft of water from underground sources

– Investigating and handling the transfer of river area and bed

– Pathology of measures taken in managing the electricity crisis in the production, transmission and distribution sectors

– Investigating the performance of rural and urban water supply projects in the face of drinking water crisis

– Study of obstacles and challenges in the process of mineral exploration in the country

Monitoring performance-based budgeting system

– Check the method and determine the cost price

– Evaluation of the effectiveness of measures taken regarding desertification

– Reviewing the relevant plans for controlling and regulating the border waters of the country and the corresponding main networks

– Review the performance of electronic government systems

– Investigating how to transfer lands to natural and legal persons

Optimal use of the expert capacity of the Court of Audit regarding financially burdensome complaints related to natural and legal persons against executive bodies in order to protect the treasury, take special measures to expedite the processing of complaints and requests of the Court of Audit regarding approvals, instructions and Illegal directives of the government and the executive apparatus were other points raised at this meeting by the President of the Court of Audit.

Mehrdad Bazarpash announced the full readiness of the Court of Audit to provide technical and expert services to the judiciary to announce a more accurate verdict in economic cases.

Hojjat-ul-Islam and Muslims “Rahimi”, the religious judge of the Court of Audit, also referred to the important responsibilities of this court, including the quasi-judicial approach in the form of filing cases related to the violation of expenses within the approved credits. In the review stage or in the retrial stage, the presence of two counselors as experts who did not intervene in the referral case, has facilitated and accelerated the progress of the investigation and issuance of the verdict in the said case.

The Sharia ruler of the Court of Audit also clarified: Judges of the judiciary can use the opinions of the experts of the Court of Audit in order to verify their opinions during the examination of economic cases.

During the meeting, Ali Kamyar, the Prosecutor of the Court of Audit, appreciated the serious determination of the judiciary and its presidency to develop and strengthen supervision in various fields and to pay attention to regulatory bodies such as the Court of Accounts. In line with the Supreme Leader’s orders regarding the need for coordination of oversight bodies, including the Inspection Agency, the Court of Audit and the Ministry of Intelligence.

Kamyar added: “In the history of the Court of Accounts, the presence of the head of the judiciary in this court is considered a rare thing, and this issue shows the serious determination of Hojjatoleslam and Muslims Mohseni Ejei in the category of fighting corruption.”

The prosecutor of the Court of Accounts, while presenting statistics on the performance of this court in the field of protection of public funds and public and government property, said: During the recent period, over 867 cases have been assigned to the Court of Accounts and in this regard 9 thousand 752 billion Tomans have been returned to the treasury. This figure is about 8 times higher than in previous years.