SHANGHAI  Ten central government departments, including the powerful Ministry of Finance, “misused or embezzled” more than $660 million last year, according to the latest report from China’s top auditor.

The report, part of a long-running crackdown on government fraud, said 88 people had been arrested, 14 officials had been referred for prosecution and an additional 104 government employees had been punished for their roles in mismanaging or embezzling government funds, state media reported Thursday.

Liu Jiayi, the nation’s top auditor, said in the report that a further $6 billion in government funds had been “mismanaged” last year, and that fraud had been detected in dozens of government bureaus, including the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Health, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Even the State Administration of Taxation was accused of fraud.

Since 1999, rolling audits of various government departments, agencies and government-owned companies, dubbed the “audit storm,” have resulted in the discovery of billions of dollars worth of fraud and mismanagement in everything from state-owned banks to the country’s social security fund.