Jun 20, 2010, 1:12 PM

Oil industry problems due to lack of guidelines: official

KHORRAMABAD, June 20 (MNA) – The director of the Supreme Audit Court has said that lack of a charter is the main reason behind widespread infractions in the oil industry.

“I have already warned that the lack of a charter has caused us many problems under various administrations,” SAC Director Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli told the Mehr Mews Agency correspondent in Khorramabad on Saturday.

He also denied reports that the SAC is trying to weaken the administration, adding that the SAC is determined “to perform its supervisory role and enhance the performance of the executive body.”

The SAC “informed the administration and the Majlis about diversions and deviations” discovered during investigations of the national budgets for the years 1385 (March 2006-March 2007), 1386 (March 2007-March 2008), and 1387 (March 2008-March 2009), he noted.

He stated that the SAC has sent a letter to the president, enumerating the discrepancies in previous budgets.

He also expressed hope that the problems could be solved through interaction and cooperation between the SAC and the Oil Ministry.

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