Office of the Comptroller General of Colombia

Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic
Contraloría General de la República
Flag of Office of the Comptroller General
Logo of Office of the Comptroller General
Agency overview
FormedJuly 19, 1923 (1923-07-19)
Preceding agency
  • Court of Auditors
HeadquartersCarrera 69 44-35
Bogotá, Colombia
Employees4,057[1]
Annual budgetCOP$242,019,000 (est. 2008)[2]
COP$331,942,394,271
(est. 2010)[3]
Agency executives
  • Carlos Mario Zuluaga Pardo, Vice Comptroller acting as Comptroller General of the Republic
  • Luis Enrique Abadía García, Office Director of Comptroller General of the Republic
Child agency
Websitewww.contraloriagen.gov.co

The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: Contraloría General de la República de Colombia) is a Colombian independent government institution that acts as the highest form of fiscal control in the country. As such, it has a mission to seek the proper allocation of resources and public funds and contribute to the modernization of the state, by means of continuous improvement in the various public entities.[1] It is one of the Colombian Control Institutions along with the Office of the Inspector General of Colombia.

  1. ^ a b "¿Qué es la Contraloría?" (in Spanish). Contraloría General. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  2. ^ "Presupuesto 2008" (in Spanish). Contraloría General. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  3. ^ Ley de Presupuesto General de la Nación 2010 (PDF), Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 2010, pp. 47–48, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07, retrieved 2010-08-18