Osmani: Poor public companies, six of them have about 30m euros in debt

Concern for the audience is the state of public enterprises, providing services for citizens such as telecommunications and other public services such as water, waste management and other environmental enterprises.

Besnik Osmani, the General Auditor, has said that out of 14 public companies, how audited 13 of them have been forced to give negative opinions.

He has said most companies operate in losses, while a small portion of them with symbolic profits.

The worst situation is to public enterprises, where of the 14 public companies we've audited for 13 of them we've been forced to give negative opinions. 6 public companies have about 30m euros in outstanding debts and operate more losses, while other eight if we collect them have only symbolic profit”, Osmani has said.

He has said that among the serious findings is inadequate budget planning by the government.

The government has planned that there will be a budget of about 37 million budget deficits, so there will be more expenses than there are capacities to incalculate revenues until the end of the year we have had another result where the budget is spent 96.8 per cent and there are 70m euros in the banking balance with the closure case that the calendar year's 31 December”, Osmani said.

According to him, the state continues to have an impasse in terms of collection and obligations, with the state's obligations to citizens and businesses worth about 6m euros.

Osamni has said that institutions are also mired in implementing recommendations provided by the National Auditor's Office. According to him, the local level is in this much worse respect, reports EO.

“We have given 951 recommendations a year earlier, only 40 percent of them have been fully implemented, 36 percent have not been affected at all, and the rest are under way”, it is expressed.

The 2020 budget revision has affected the ZKA. Osmani has said that with the budget review, he has affected an important project of this institution.

The 2020 budget adoption of “has not included some important elements in implementing our strategic plan”.

“There has been a very important budget cut, there is a software that increases security in auditing and reduces the time needed for auditing, increase transparency, but also one of the most important measures for eliminating the errors of our”, Osmani said..