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A few hours after the Comptroller General of the Republic released the final report 54-2019, which found the existence of irregularities within the Council for Transparency (CPLT), the agency issued a public statement distancing itself from its former president Marcelo Drago, who would have misused fiscal resources within the institution that he headed between 2017 and 2019.
In its report the inspection body found, in addition, the misuse of the tax vehicle, the irregular hiring of an official and accounting inconsistencies within the entity, whose annual budget is around $ 7,402 million.
In this way, and through a public statement entitled “Council for Transparency assesses the resolution of the Comptroller’s Office against former president”, the institution details that “For a year we have been supporting the need to clarify various administrative situations that occurred in the Council for Transparency. This need was recorded in various minutes of the board of directors and a process review committee was formed to rectify them ”.
Likewise, they assure that to deal with internal situations an institutional strengthening committee was formed that “taking up the concerns of the board of directors and the Association of Officials, promoted corrective or preventive measures in various areas, for example, greater transparency at work. of the board of directors, greater demands in its sessions and minutes, and greater control over institutional assets. Likewise, it was agreed to terminate the minutes secretary in June and the general director in August ”.
In its report, the Comptroller’s Office considered information collected between January 1 and October 31, 2018. And it also included in its “simplified audit”, a complaint of last January 10 for “serious breaches of probity and possible falsification of public instrument, by the secretary of the Board of Directors, José Ruiz Yáñez. In addition, influence peddling of the director and former president of the Council for Transparency, Marcelo Drago, and the general director, Andrea Ruiz, for the benefit of this official, ”the complaint states. In the same administrative investigation, the complaints of “selective omission” of the minutes of the council sessions were considered.
In this sense, from the CPLT they assured that from “January of this year, the General Comptroller’s Office notified the Board that it was investigating a complaint against the director Marcelo Drago, the general director and the secretary of minutes of the institution. Due to the implicit gravity of the accusation, it was immediately agreed to instruct an internal summary investigation and, given the new information that emerged from it, in recent July two new investigations were ordered ”.
Marcelo Drago, former president of the organization, resigned from the board on June 23, a few days before the opening of an internal investigation ordered on July 2 by other advisers of the organization. Meanwhile, the secretary of the Board of Directors, José Ruiz Yáñez, whom the Comptroller’s Office questioned for not being hired according to the internal regulations of the organization, was dissociated on June 30.
After the results of the administrative investigation of the Comptroller’s Office, the CPLT assured that the current board of directors “It has acted cohesively and decisively to defend the institutionality. We will always have the best disposition to clarify any doubts that citizens express and to collaborate with any question that both the control and judicial investigation bodies raise. “
The objective of the audit carried out by the Comptroller’s Office aimed to oversee the management of funds and the administrative control of the fiscal assets of the CPLT. From this analysis, the controlling entity detected that “the accounting information on the physical assets of the fixed asset presented inconsistencies with the administrative record maintained by the entity, noting that assets written off for $ 2,086,359 are included in the accounting, in so much so that others for the sum of $ 10,079,069, have not been incorporated into it “. For each of the irregularities detected, the Comptroller’s Office gave the CPLT a period of 60 business days to correct these events.
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