The government and state-affiliated corporations squandered 13.38 billion yen in public money in 268 cases during fiscal 1999, the Board of Audit said in a report submitted Thursday to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.
The figures for the year that ended on March 31 are up by some 5.76 billion yen from the previous fiscal year.
The report points out that the amount of taxes and premiums for public insurance schemes in arrears reached some 8.03 billion yen.