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OTTAWA — An audit of Canada’s embassy in Egypt has found serious examples of mismanagement, including the loss of $81,000 in unrecoverable taxes and a decision to buy 20 high-quality televisions, then abandon them for months in a warehouse.

The details are revealed in a newly-released report, part of a multi-year review of which Canadian embassies are at the highest risk of fraud.

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Officials at Global Affairs Canada are trying to prevent the kinds of mistakes revealed in a 2015 investigation that found Canada’s embassy in Haiti lost $1.7 million over 12 years due to fraud — a discovery that prompted the government to sack 17 locally-recruited staff in Port-au-Prince and order audits of a number of embassies it considers to be similarly at risk.

When auditors visited Egypt from May 28 to June 8 last year, they found the 74-employee mission failing to meet a variety of standards and policies. Their report described “opportunities for misuse of consular funds,” “control weaknesses,” “a lack of consideration of value for money” and “questionable choices” throughout.