The body in charge of auditing the study houses issued a statement in which it explains the reasons for the official decision.
SIGEN issued a statement justifying the audits.
Through a statement the General Sindicature of the Nation (SIGEN)the body in charge of auditing national universities, justified the official initiative and considered that “there is no collision between university autonomy and autarky and control competence.”
“It sought to guarantee the financial regularity and legality of the procedures for the use of public resources and the liability regime of officials, imposing on them the obligation to account for their management; in addition to implementing an internal control system, integrated by SIGEN, as the Governing body“argues the official text.
“The control carried out by SIGEN is essential for adequate public management, since it implements and supervises the operation of tools that allow the responsible authority of the supervised body or entity to be warned about the risks that exist in the organization under its charge and, consequently , provide information that facilitates the adoption of corrective actions that restore the regularity and legality of administrative actions, thus collaborating in the process of continuous improvement of state activity. When there is no control, the existence of an environment conducive to the occurrence of maneuvers that allow public money to be diverted to unwanted purposes is facilitated.“adds the organization.
As an example of the latter, he presents the case of the University of Chaco Austral, “whose Rector, Omar Judis, was convicted by the Oral Court of Resistance, in the case ‘JUDIS, Omar Vicente and others regarding fraud against the public administration’ , File No. FRE 2988/2016/TO1, seven years in prison, special perpetual disqualification for the exercise of Public Function and fine.”
The national government authorized SIGEN to audit National Universities
The Attorney General of the National Treasury, Rodolfo Barrasigned the opinion on Tuesday so that the General Sindicature of the Nation (SIGEN) works like auditing body of the National Universities.
Among the justifications, the Attorney General reported that the planned internal control system is included in the Law of Financial Administration and the National Public Sector Control System No. 24,156 and applicable to the National Universities without contradicting or violating the functional autonomy and the administrative-financial autarky that the National Constitution recognizes, regulated through the Higher Education Law 24,521.
The organization notified the universities of the measure, and now the universities must appoint a counterpart. Meanwhile, the first preliminary results are expected within two months.
Source: Ambito
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