IGF Mission Summary (March 2015): Contrôle de l’utilisation des subventions accordées par le MEF à l’Ecole de Musique Louis Achille Othello
Summary: The Inspection Générale des Finances' published summary of its mission on contrôle de l’utilization des subventions accordées par le MEF à l’Ecole de Musique Louis Achille Othello. The IGF's summaries give the mission's subject, its findings and its recommendations; the full report is not published. The document carries no publication date at its head. March 2015 is the only month-year in the text that is not earlier than everything the document cites: a report cannot predate the facts and texts it refers to. The date is inferred, not read off a cover.
Key Findings
- The Haitian State, through MEF, granted EMLAOB an initial subsidy of 5,000,000 gourdes in August 2004 and three further annual payments of 1,000,000 gourdes each.
- The audit reviewed the use of funds granted by MEF after EMLAOB requested an increase in its annual subsidy.
- IGF found serious legal, financial, inventory, and management failures, including unilateral changes to statutes, absence of accounting documents, spending inconsistent with the subsidy purpose, no asset inventory, no internal control, and transactions through personal family accounts.
- The report confirmed the South Department MEF directorate's unfavorable opinion on increasing or renewing the public subsidy.
- IGF said public funds accounted for 89.85% of total subsidies and about 81.86% of cumulative resources over four years.
- IGF proposed immediately securing school assets and freezing funds, then deciding between recovery and liquidation, with liquidation described as the most probable outcome.
How to cite
General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF), IGF Mission Summary (March 2015): Contrôle de l’utilisation des subventions accordées par le MEF à l’Ecole de Musique Louis Achille Othello, https://igf.gouv.ht/