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A new report released by the Court of Accounts, the Spanish court responsible for auditing public and political party spending, has found a large number of accounting irregularities in declarations presented by the Citizens (Cs) party in the years 2014 and 2015. The report, auditing the accounts of political parties, shows that in 2015, electoral invoices presented by the Cs in the party's name totalled 14,371 euros, a quantity that may breach article 4.3 of the Law of Political Party Funding, which forbids political groups from allowing third parties to assume the costs of their activity. Within the amount mentioned, the donors of 2,037 euros are not identified. 

These annual accounts presented by Cs for 2015 do not include 678,023 euros received from the Catalan Parliament, 220,997 from Spain's Ministry of Interior, 145,272 euros from the Valencian government, 42,169 euros from the European Parliament and 91,377 from different provincial capitals.

The accounts for the centre-right Spanish party also include errors in the recording of balances and payments to creditors, while some omissions of cash movements and accounting duplications relating to spending have been spotted. As well, relating to the context of the recent Catalan elections, the Citizens party failed to declare as expenses a total amount of 166,281 euros in certain categories that by law should be included. 

The salaries of party staff are another point in the Court of Accounts' report. Branches of the Cs party in town councils and provincial authorities appear to have spent 166,393 euros on the wages of party staff members, which may breach the prescribed limits for local level spending. There are duplications of wage slips, employees hired for several campaigns without their remuneration being declared as an electoral expense and a failure to pay income tax or social security contributions for two interns who received 4,000 euros, among other anomalies. 

Among the many aspects which can be freely consulted in the report (in Spanish), is an overall  discrepancy between the accounts presented by the Citizens party and the correct accounting of up to 9.6 million euros.