Document :

ITU-SG CL  Contribution  75

Title :

General Audit following the case of fraud in a regional office

Date :

2021-03-23

Source :

SG

Meeting :

2021-06-08

Access :

Restricted to TIES users [ITU-SG]

Abstract :

In Decision 613, adopted at Council 2019, the Council instructed the Secretary-General (i) to mandate an external enterprise specialized in financial crime investigations with carrying out a forensic audit in order to identify any instances of fraud or other financial misconduct over the course of the past 10 years as well as (ii) to ensure that the audit determines whether the organisation has suffered further loss or injury in addition to the known case of fraud in the ITU Regional office for Asia and the Pacific. The IMAC was consulted, prior to tendering, to prepare the Terms of Reference for the external enterprise, to ensure that it takes into account vulnerabilities of the organisation to fraud. The initial examination was undertaken by PwC between January 2021 and May 2021. The report on the initial examination is presented for Council's consideration. Due to the length of the PowerPoint presentation of the full report, the executive summary is available in six languages, and the full report is available in English at the following link: https://www.itu.int/en/council/ties/Documents/2021/PwC-complete-report.pdf.