Municipalities in Yucatán must clarify the use of more than 73 million pesos

The Superior Audit of the State of Yucatán (ASEY) delivered to State Congress the Second Report of Results of the Audit of the Cpublic account 2024which includes observations on a possible damage or loss to the treasury of 75.8 million pesos.

The greatest amount, $73.1 million, It is concentrated at the municipal level. It is followed by the paramunicipal sector, with $2.7 million.

In the case of the municipalities, this second installment considers the inspection of 41 town councils, which together generated 45 individual reports.

The difference in the amounts is due to the fact that some municipalities were the subject of two audits, corresponding to the matters of financial compliance and public investment.

Yaxcabá, the municipality with the greatest damage

Of the 41 audited municipalitiesthe greatest amount of possible damage or harm to the treasury corresponds to Yaxcabá, con 13 million 802 thousand 547 pesos and 17 final observations.

It follows Dzilam from Bravowith 6 million 532 thousand 983 pesos and 16 final observations. Behind is Teyawith 4 million 888 thousand 388 pesos and 15 final observations.

The audited entities still have 30 business daysas of its notification, to present the documentation that justifies the exercise of the observed resources.

The annual program

The senior auditor, Rubén de Jesús Arjona Ortiz, indicated that with this Second Report progress is made in compliance with the Annual Audit Program 2025 and the process of reviewing the use of public resources continues during that fiscal year.

According to the head of the ASEY, this second installment considers the results of 83 audits carried out on agencies and entities of the Executive and Judicial powers, autonomous organizations, municipalities and para-municipal entities, which represents 67.41% of the target population audited, equivalent to $1,301.1 million.

“With this second installment, ASEY consolidates the inspection process corresponding to the Public Account 2024, in strict accordance with the Inspection Law and under the principles of legality, objectivity and transparency,” said Arjona Ortiz.

Coverage and scope

The report details that the Executive Branch was the subject of 32 auditswith a revised sample of 784.3 million pesos. The Judiciary had two audits with a coverage of 93.74%.

In the case of the Executive Branch, 85 preliminary observationsof which 26 were solved. They persist 30 not resolved and 29 partially resolved. Therefore, 59 concluding observations remain.

An autonomous body—the State Institute of Transparency, Access to Public Information and Protection of Personal Data—was audited with a coverage scope of 75.3%, while the municipalities added 45 audits and the paramunicipal organizations three, with coverage of 56.3 and 53.29%, respectively.

In total, in this second installment, 661 preliminary observationsof which 66 were resolved, 244 partially resolved and 351 remained unresolved, resulting in 595 concluding observations.

The amount associated with observations with possible damage or harm amounts to $75.8 million, concentrated—as we noted before—at the municipal ($73.1 million) and paramunicipal ($2.7 million) levels.

As a result of the concluding observations, ASEY issued 715 “shares.” Of them, 399 correspond to promotions of administrative responsibility, thirteen to recommendations, 96 to promotions of the exercise of the power of tax verification and 207 to sheets of observations.

He Executive Branch concentrated 63 actions; he Judicial Branch, four; the municipalities, 609, and the paramunicipal organizations, 39.

Performance audits, by their nature, mainly resulted in recommendations, while financial compliance audits generated the majority of actions linked to administrative responsibilities and sheets of observations.

Closing of the cycle

Rubén Arjona indicated that with this second delivery, of three established in the law, ASEY has completed 95 of the 232 audits scheduled in the 2025 Annual Program, relating to the Public Account 2024, for analysis by the Public Account Surveillance, Transparency and Anti-Corruption Commission of the State Congress, the body in charge of its ruling.

“The review of public resources constitutes an accountability exercise that strengthens citizen trust and democratic control over public spending,” he stressed.

The ASEY also delivered to Congress the Report on the Situation of Observations, Recommendations and Promoted Actions with a cut-off date of the third quarter of 2025.

The report includes, among other matters, information on the allegations of events presented to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the Fight Corruption in the State of Yucatán, the investigations and procedures substantiated by the Investigative Units and the Substantiating Unit of the ASEY, respectively, and, where appropriate, those resolved by the Administrative Justice Court of the State of Yucatán.

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