NEW DELHI: With an instruction from larger authorities to "go deep into the small print", the Comptroller and Auditor Basic of India (CAG) on Wednesday constituted a staff to conduct an audit of the All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) for the final 4 monetary years for alleged monetary irregularities.
The AIFF, although, insisted that it has not acquired any "particular letter" from CAG in latest instances and stated submission of its audited monetary statements is a "regular factor" which is finished once in a while.
"CAG has constituted a staff immediately to audit AIFF's report of final 4 monetary years and there may be an instruction from the upper authorities to the particular staff to go deep into the small print and perform a radical investigation," a Indian soccer supply conscious of the event stated.

Reacting to a report that the Sports activities Ministry has accredited an audit of the apex soccer physique after the particular cell of the CAG allegedly discovered monetary irregularities within the AIFF, a federation official stated it has been submitting a duplicate of its audited monetary statements to the CAG.
"Very first thing is, the federation has not acquired any particular letter from CAG not too long ago on audit of the AIFF monetary statements for the final 4 monetary years -- 2017-18 to 2020-21. It is a regular factor and never a one-off difficulty," the federation official stated.
The AIFF has been going through the warmth of late, largely due to the delay in conducting its elections, pending since greater than a yr regardless of a number of members of the physique expressing their opposition to it.
On the difficulty of the sports activities ministry approving an audit of the soccer physique by CAG, the AIFF on Tuesday additionally sought to clear the air.
"Opposite to sure media reviews, the AIFF want to make clear that it has been submitting a duplicate of its audited monetary statements to the CAG. In actual fact, audited accounts from 2017-18 to 2020-21 have all been submitted to them," the AIFF stated in a press release.
"The AIFF did obtain a letter on June 18, 2021, from CAG asking for audited funds together with a duplicate of paperwork of economic grants from MYAS and different sources for the interval from 2017-18 to 2020-21.
"It was on August 30, 2021, that every one related paperwork for the interval from 2017-18 to 2019-20 have been submitted, and subsequently, all audited financials for the interval of 2020-21 have been submitted on February 10, 2022," it added.
Final month, the sports activities ministry knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket that Praful Patel has no mandate to proceed because the federation's president as he has already served three phrases and the nationwide physique ought to maintain elections with out additional delay.
In an affidavit to the apex court docket on April 8 in relation to a Particular Go away Petition (SLP) filed by the AIFF, the sports activities ministry stated Patel's tenure was in violation of the Sports activities Code.
Patel accomplished his three phrases and 12 years as AIFF president in December, 2020, the utmost permitted to a nationwide sports activities federation (NSF) chief below the Sports activities Code.
The AIFF, nevertheless, didn't maintain the elections, citing a pending petition within the Supreme Court docket concerning its structure.