2024-07-20 05:01:05
A financial audit of the National Radio and Television of Colombia (RTVC) for the 2023 period has revealed multiple administrative, fiscal and disciplinary irregularities.
The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) has detected significant deficiencies in budget execution and contract managementwhich has led to the issuance of a final rating of “Internal Accounting Fiscal Control WITH DEFICIENCIES” and not to the closing of the account rendered by the entity for the year 2023.
1. Major Tax Finding: The audit has identified a fiscal finding with disciplinary impact for a value of $9.371 million. This corresponds to deficiencies in the planning and inoperability of contract 2039 of 2020, intended to centralize the applications used by RTVC. Despite having signed a completion certificate, the platform was never implemented.
2. Deficiencies in Contracts with the National Land Agency: Two additional findings relate to irregularities in an inter-administrative contract with the National Land Agency, for a total amount of $5.9 billion. These will be the subject of preliminary investigations.
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3. Hard-to-Collect PortfolioAt the close of fiscal year 2023, RTVC reported a portfolio of $10,758 million over 361 days, classified as difficult to collect. This figure represents 34.93% of the total portfolio, which amounts to $30,799 million.
4. Deficiencies in Budget Execution: RTVC did not commit or execute $12.089 billion of its final budget of $308.361 billion. This reflects a lack of foresight and analysis of needs, affecting the execution of expenses and investments and compromising future budgets.
5. FUTIC Resources without Prior Activities: Deficiencies were identified in the request for resources from the Single Fund for Information and Communication Technologies (FUTIC) for the project to deploy and cover national and regional public DTT. The resources were assigned without the necessary prior activities and technical requirements.
The CGR issued a Qualified Opinion on RTVC’s financial position as of December 31, 2023 and the results of its operations. In addition, RTVC’s budget execution was rated as “Not Reasonable,” indicating that it was neither efficient nor reasonable in material aspects according to applicable standards.
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