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Auditors say quality of statistics is abysmal

the director of the Supreme Audit Court.

Trend News Agency quoted him as saying, “We do not know the exact figure for the national income,” the basic building block of economic statistics.

He said even the actual deposit total in the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund, into which oil revenues above those assigned by the national budget are to be deposited, is unknown.

President Ahmadi-nejad has been repeatedly accused of spending money from that fund without prior Majlis authorization.  The Audit Court last month said the fund was empty.

Rahmani-Fazli said “financial indiscipline” was a national predicament weakening the country’s economic structure.

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