Auditors help recoup stolen housing funds (3)

"The cause of some of these problems, which repeatedly emerge despite the use of regular audits, is complicated," an official with the top audit authority said on Wednesday.

The official said the role, scope and goals of audits are set by laws and regulations, a fact that results in the same sorts of issues being discovered again and again.

For that reason, the issues can come to seem "familiar and chronic".