MONROVIA, Jan. 22 -- The General Auditing Commission (GAC) has identified multiple issues of significant materiality that affect the operations of the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 in the audit report recently released to the National Legislature.

The audit revealed that the amounts of L$11,722,784.48 and US$389,800.71 were made for projects and other transactions without evidence of adequate supporting documents such as payment vouchers, receipts, invoices, delivery notes, goods received notes, certificate of completion to support the payments, which the GAC says undermines the legitimacy of the transactions.

According to the audit report, payments amounting to US$47,922.50 were ma...