What is the ruling on a government employee, tasked with monitoring public projects and approving accounts of work progress, preparing the private accounts for a contractor under his supervision outside of working hours and with his own tools for a fee, while adhering to legal oversight and not granting any privileges?

An auditor of project accounts is not permitted to undertake the project's accounting himself, even outside official working hours, for two reasons:

First: The existence of a financial relationship between the auditor and the contractor corrupts the auditor's authority, making him inclined towards the contractor at the expense of justice. Whoever falls into doubt falls into the unlawful.

Second: The employee's earning of salary for auditing project accounts that were not actually subjected to auditing. Indeed, the eye of the overseer on the work of others is more discerning of flaws than a man overseeing himself.