The National Audit Office (NAO) has presented the individual results of three audits, including the performance audit “Evaluation of Direct Asset Sale Procedures under the management of the Kosovo Privatization Agency”, for the period 2019-2021 and two compliance audits “Commissioning of municipal properties and their monitoring in the Municipality of Ferizaj” as well as “Procurement and management of contracts in the Ministry of Health for the year 2023”.
In a press conference, the Auditor General of the NAO, Vlora Spanca, while revealing the results, said that the audit has highlighted that during the conclusion of the direct sales of assets, the Privatization Agency of Kosovo (PAK) was not efficient as the handling of purchase requests was not done in optimal time.
Spanca emphasized that out of the 118 audited direct sales, 90 of them had constructions without the permission of the relevant Social Enterprises (SE) or the PAK. She showed that out of the 90 samples identified with unauthorized constructions, in 76 cases the State Administration or the PAK did not take measures to build the unauthorized constructions, while in 14 cases the PAK took different measures.
Spanca said that in the direct sales module, 2 thousand and 233 requests were submitted by the claimant parties, of which the PAK handled only 558 requests.
For this, NAO has given seven recommendations.
Meanwhile, in the audit “Granting into use of municipal properties and their monitoring in the Municipality of Ferizaj for the period 01.01.2022 to 30.09.2023”, Spanca said that the results show that the municipality of Ferizaj has failed to maintain and increase the value of the properties given for rent and that about 66 percent of the tested samples have resulted in irregularities.
The general auditor at NAO, Vlora Spanca, emphasized that in two cases, the municipality had signed agreements for the use of properties without prior approval from the Municipal Assembly.
Meanwhile, in two other cases, this municipality had awarded with a contract the beneficiaries who had not fulfilled the criteria established by the public call for auction.
Regarding these irregularities, the NAO has given five recommendations.
In addition to these, Spanca also presented the results of the audit “Procurement and management of contracts in the Ministry of Health for 2023”, for which he said that the Ministry of Health has failed to contract a significant number of planned procurements.
She emphasized that a number of 35 procedures that were mainly related to supplies of medical equipment and drugs worth over 4.5 million euros were canceled by the ministry itself.
As many as five recommendations have been given for this audit as well. At the press conference, Spanca announced that three performance audit reports will be published by August 31 of this year, including Prishtina Parking, the Agricultural Institute’s properties and the patient waiting list.
