Inappropriate accounting due to the digitization of war dead data, etc.Disposal of 17 MHLW employees December 26 18:27

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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said on Tuesday that it had improper accounting treatment to pay the contractor for work that was ordered by an external contractor, such as digitizing the data of the war dead, to an outside contractor, but it was not completed yet I have disposed of people.

Inappropriate accounting was carried out in the business of digitizing data on the war dead, such as documents from the former Japanese military, and in the data entry business for actual conditions surveys on children such as infants.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, these tasks were improperly accounted for by staff members creating and paying for lie material, even though the contractor was not completed by the deadline.

Last year, seven such problems were discovered, and subsequent investigations revealed four new similar cases.

The total amount paid to the contractor amounted to 270 million yen, and although all the operations were completed after that, some cases were two years behind the deadline.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has disposed of a total of 11 staff members involved in improper accounting on November 26, of which one assistant manager reduced wages, two assistant managers and one assistant manager combined. Three people were disciplined for reprimand.

One of the staff members said, "I thought that I could not execute the budget unless I paid for it within the fiscal year." The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, "Thorough training for the staff should not be done. To prevent recurrence. "