May 12 (SeeNews) - Kosovo’s national auditing office said it established a series of violations at the country's enterprise support agency, KIESA, including the provision of grants to companies that were not eligible for financing and failure to act on funding recipients' default on staff size commitments.
KIESA was notified that 20 of the 28 companies that it subsidised in 2019 failed to meet their commitments to hire new employees, yet it did not take any action, the auditing office said in a report published earlier this month. In 2020, only thirteen of agency's 24 funding beneficiaries met their commitments for new employees.
The audit office also established that the agency set up only four out of ten planned industrial and commercial zones in different cities of Kosovo.
The probe looked into 45 grant agreements signed in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
KIESA's scope of activities involves promoting and supporting investments, export, tourism, SMEs, and special and economic zones in Kosovo.