From pricey dress shirts and South American wine to tiny boxes of Smarties, organizers of next summer’s Pan Am Games are again under fire for questionable expenses after releasing 5,000 pages of receipts.

“There were some items in there . . . that did not pass a common sense test,” TO2015 chief Saad Rafi acknowledged Friday, unable to explain some of the claims that filled a banker’s box.

“I can’t speak to every single item in there,” added Rafi, who took over the games after the departure of Ian Troop last year and did not have tally for all the expenses since the organization’s inception in 2010.

Troop did not reply to requests for comment.

There were claims for $8,220 in Toronto Argonauts tickets, $9,820 in Tim Hortons gift cards, yoga pants and jackets, hundreds of international flights — including $3,800 for two adults and a child to jet to Turin, Italy, site of the 2006 Winter Olympics — a wine tour, flowers, parking tickets, dozens of catered meals and snacks, educational courses and professional dues for staff, among other expenses.

Few, if any, expenses came with explanations.

TO2015 chief spokesman Teddy Katz said the expenses were “organizational” and not linked to any one person.

Rafi said many items are required to plan and run the Games, such as Smarties for a trade show booth and Argo tickets for a promotion. The Tim Hortons cards were for Games volunteers instead of catering meals for them.

The document dump came a day after MPPs left the legislature for their Christmas break, even though the papers were ready for release two weeks ago.

That prompted charges from opposition parties that Pan Am organizers were trying to avoid scrutiny and protect Premier Kathleen Wynne after a scathing report from auditor general Bonnie Lysyk earlier this week.

“There just seems to be that aura of entitlement that exists at TO2015 and other government agencies as well. And it is completely unacceptable for the taxpayers of Ontario,” said Progressive Conservative MPP Todd Smith.

The expenses are a reminder of a spending scandal at eHealth Ontario where consultants making up to $3,000 a day charged for tea and cookies, said New Democrat MPP Paul Miller.

“Now we’re finding out that Ontarians are footing the bill so Pan Am officials can go shopping at Harry Rosen, the LCBO or The Beer Store,” he added in a statement.

Rafi, a former deputy health minister under the Liberals during the ORNGE air ambulance scandal, said he has tried to clamp down on improper expenses since taking his post in January.

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What was spent

$1,300

yoga apparel from Joe Fresh

$1,288

J.P. Tilford dress shirts from Harry Rosen

$590

University of Toronto continuing education course in “writing essentials” for a staff member

$1,180

Rental of “Funarama” photo booth for 3 hours at the downtown Toronto YMCA

$733.37

For a 16 GB iPhone

$438

For 40 bottles of Cono Sur Bicicleta Viognier and Trivento Fair Trade Malbec

$5.63

ZipLoc freezer bags from Loblaws

$2,802.97

“VIP breakfast” for 50 catered by Marigolds and Onions.