The government’s Sports Fund has been taken to task by the Commission of Audit for making “arbitrary” decisions on granting subsidies to the city’s various sporting associations.
The funds were used for organising or participating in sporting competitions or events between 2018 and 2021.
In a report released on Friday, and cited in the Macau Post Daily, the commission said it assessed subsidies amounting to around 137 million patacas during the four-year period.
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It says that the Sports Fund failed to draw up any specific regulations on assessing and granting subsidies for sporting contests or events, highlighting what it called the fund’s “unscientific and unreasonable” way of awarding grants.
The fund is headed by the president of the Sports Bureau (ID), Pun Weng Kun, who told reporters yesterday that regulations on subsidies would be reviewed and improved.
He insisted that the bureau had always required sports associations to submit subsidy applications in full compliance with regulations, the Macau Post Daily reported.
