Government organizations and state-funded corporations improperly spent more than 24 billion yen in taxpayer money in fiscal 2001, the Board of Audit said Friday.
According to a report submitted by the board to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, 24.32 billion yen in 302 cases was inappropriately used, board officials said.
The government ministries and agencies as well as state-funded organizations wasted about 17.1 billion yen and failed to collect about 7.2 billion yen in taxes and social insurance premiums, the officials said.