REPORT 1
He is robbing the government; he is not paying his debt.
Birkan Bulut
Ankara
Gebze-Orhangazi-izmir Highway [the highway coming from İstanbul to İzmir], which was made with the Do-Operation-Transfer model, is paid over 1 billion 750 million liras as a guarantee of vehicle crossing for the first half of 2020, but the company has not paid 568 million TL usage fee for 9 years of the public private cooperation (KÖI) projects that caused reactions with billions of pounds in guaranteed fee payments was the Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir Highway, which is also part of the Osmangazi Bridge [the bridge on to İzmit Bay]. In the project undertaken by Highway Investment Inc (Nurol, Özaltın, Makyol, Astaldi, Yüksel and Göçay), Osmangazi Bridge was opened in 2016 and all stages were opened last year. Because the vehicle crossing is below the guarantee given, guarantees were paid in the range of TL 2.6 billion in 2019 and TL 1 billion 750-800 million in the first half of 2020.
DEBT IS GUARANTEED
In addition to the income of the companies, the debts they received from banks were guaranteed by the treasury. The amount of debt has totaled $17.2 billion this year due to payment commitments made by the treasury in mega projects. Among the projects that the treasury has committed to pay is the Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir Highway with a loan of $4.9 billion in the first place.
TAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, BUT HE CAN'T EVEN PAY 568 MILLION LIRAS!
However, this project, which guarantees millions of dollars in revenue by 2035, revealed that the state could not collect a total usage fee of TL 568 million in 9 years. According to the Audit Report of the General Directorate of Highways 2019 Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir (including Izmit Gulf Crossing and connecting roads) Highway work for the expropriation fee paid by the administration for the transportation of the company had to pay the usage fee was found not to be charged.
HE HAD TO GIVE FIVE THOUSAND TL PER PARCEL
According to Article 26 of the administrative specification, up to TL 400 million of the expropriation fee will be paid by the company in charge, the expropriation fee above this amount will be paid by the administration, and the official company is obliged to pay the usage fee for the duration of the contract from the date the expropriation fee is delivered to it for the transports paid by the administration. For the year 2010, when the contract was signed, the price of each parcel was set at TL 5,000, excluding VAT.
Auditors of the Court of Auditors in their review, 2 billion 453 million 446 thousand TL payment was made within the scope of the work, 400 million of this amount was covered by the company in charge of administrative specifications and contract provisions, they noted.
2010 to the end of 2019, 568 million 151 thousand TL usage fee was found to be collected.
THEY DEFENDED THEMSELVES WITH THE LAW THAT CAME OUT AFTER THE CONTRACT
In 2011, the law entered into force under law no. 3996 made under the use of the work was ruled that there will be no charge. General Directorate of Highways, according to the contract, the company must comply with the changes in the legislation, the cost of use is against the law argued. Auditors of the Court of Auditors, 3996 under the law made under the decision that there will be no usage fee, but this tender was given in 2009, and so it was reminded that the contract was signed in 2010. “The fact that the company has to comply with a change in legislation or a court order does not mean that it will no longer pay the usage fee it has to pay as required by the implementation agreement”, the auditors said, noting the principle of inability to reverse the law.
REPORT 2:
277 MILLION TL DEBT GIVEN TO FOUNDATION UNIVERSITIES HAS NOT BEEN COLLECTED
Birkan Bulut
Ankara
According to the auditor-general's audit report for 2019, the General Directorate of Foundations has loaned various universities approximately TL 277 million since 2010 in violation of the legislation. Council of Foundations does not have such authority, indicating that the Auditors of the Court, the collection of this debt has not been done for years, as well as the decision was taken to postpone the payment on various dates.
In the audit report for 2019, the General Directorate of Foundations, the Court of Auditors found that various universities were loaned in violation of the legislation. According to the report, the General Directorate of Foundations 2547 established under the Law on Higher Education universities, the Decision of the Council of Foundations in accordance with the legislation in accordance with the different dates loaned. Action was taken regarding the repayment of these debts.
DEBT PAYMENTS POSTPONED
From 2010 to the end of 2019, universities were loaned approximately 277 million Liras by the decisions of the Council of Foundations. However, auditors found that the repayment of these amounts given as debts was not realized, that transactions related to the follow-up of these debts were not made by the administration, and that the repayment of the debts was postponed by the decisions taken by the House of Foundations on various dates.
UNIVERSITY NAMES NOT GIVEN
However, the names of universities that were not charged in violation of the legislation were not included in the report. Directorate budget of lending to universities is not counted among the decisions of the Council of Foundations, the Auditors of the Court of Auditors, stressed that these debts should be collected by monitoring.
REPORT 3:
‘272 MILLION 766 THOUSAND TL' LOST IN THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Meltem Akyol
Istanbul
The Court's Justice Department report reflected a series of irregularities. According to the report, 272 million 766 thousand TL debt, which appears in the accounting records of the Institution of Criminal Execution Institutions and Detention Centers, is not in the records of the Ministry of Justice.
The auditor-general's 2019 audit report for the Ministry of Justice found striking determinations. According to the report prepared by the Court of Auditors, the accrual records of the rental fees paid in advance by the Ministry of Justice were not made. The Court of Auditors report 'Due to the direct expense registration of the accrual records of the rents due to prepaid rental fees', pointed out that no real information was produced.
The most notable element in the report is that the debt contained in the accounting records of the Criminal Institutions and Detention Centers Employment Agency is not in the records of the Ministry of Justice. According to the report, criminal institutions and detention institutions in the accounting records of the Ministry of Justice "will receive" 272 million 766 thousand TL appears.
However, this figure does not appear to be a debt in the Accounting Records of the Ministry of Justice.
Hediye Levent
Yusuf Karadaş
Yücel Özdemir