Tight audit

By naming names, the National Audit Office has come down hard on individuals and government agencies misappropriating funds and purloining State assets.

However, to inspire fear, the audit watchdog needs to not only expose loopholes in the system but also try to plug them.

The authority on Wednesday issued the country's longest annual audit report with three detailed appendixes, including audit findings of 21 government-backed projects, budget enforcement details of 56 central departments, and the analyses and conclusions of 36 major cases handed over by the audit office since 2008.