Sri Lanka, Aug. 24 -- A special audit report on the eighth and ninth sessions of the Parliament has uncovered widespread spending issues revealing that top officials, enjoyed unlimited fuel allocations while operating under regulations that haven't been updated in nearly seven decades.

Despite receiving an annual budget of around Rs.3,500 million to manage public finances, Parliament itself was found to be bypassing standard transparency controls. The detailed special audit conducted by the Auditor General investigating the proceedings of the Eighth and Ninth Parliaments, revealed that the Parliament of Sri Lanka carries out its operations as a budgetary entity based on the Parliamentary Staff Act No. 09 of 1953; introduced nearly 70 yea...