Direct USAID payments to Kiev lacked proper oversight, the inspector general’s office has told lawmakers
The US sent Ukraine $26 billion in aid without adequate oversight of how the funds would be used, a government auditor has told lawmakers.
The flaws in a program managed by the now-defunct US Agency for International Development (USAID) were highlighted by the office of the inspector general, which oversees it.
Contractors hired by the agency to monitor the assistance “failed to provide required reports on time or at all,” Deputy Inspector General Adam Kaplan told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence on Tuesday. “Mitigating risks requires more than announcing costly monitoring contracts.”
Kaplan was referring to funding delivered to the Ukrainian government through a World Bank trust fund, intended to compensate for social benefits to people displaced by the conflict with Russia. An audit released by the USAID IG office earlier this month found that in some cases, Washington reimbursed duplicate payments or payments to Ukrainian citizens living in other nations who were ineligible.
Disclaimer : This story is auto aggregated by a computer programme and has not been created or edited by DOWNTHENEWS. Publisher: rt.com
