UNDP slams Chamber of Accounts

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In what has to be one of the most damning statements published in the local media, the United Nations Development Program's representative in Santo Domingo called the Chamber of Accounts "a nine-headed dinosaur". The UNDP's Niky Fabiancic told reporters that the law that created the Chamber of Accounts needed to be changed so that one person could head the organization and not nine, as is currently the case. The UN Development Program director said that, "recent actions that increased their salaries have taken away their credibility for fulfilling their jobs." Fabiancic went further and said that he was not talking about replacing the nine magistrates currently serving the Chamber of Accounts, but rather, "the elimination of all nine posts." He pointed out that most developing countries have a public auditor who heads an office in charge of supervising the state's operations, but in the Dominican Republic there are nine people, "which means nine new SUVs, nine secretaries, nine chauffeurs, etc, etc." Fabiancic was speaking at a seminar sponsored by the Dominican Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD), and according to Diario Libre, it was he who brought up the issue of the Chamber of Accounts.

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