Middle Class Bond: Prosecutor’s Office evaluates opening criminal investigation for “subsidy fraud”



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He Public Ministry evaluates opening a criminal investigation for possible “subsidy fraud” after the Internal Revenue Service (SII) reported that 437,703 workers obtained the Middle Class Bonus, delivered by the Government, fraudulently, by way of “declaring an amount less than the real one in their salaries for July.”

Therefore, the national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, officiated this Friday to the director of the SII, Fernando Barraza, to deliver the complete list of cases that the organism detected.

“After starting the verification processes to determine the correct fulfillment of the requirements established in the Law for the delivery of the Tax Contribution for the Middle Class, the Internal Revenue Service detected that 437,703 dependent workers presented differences between the amount that they self-declared as a taxable salary for July 2020 at the time of requesting the Bonus, and the actual amount calculated from their mandatory pension contributions or from what is actually received“The SII reported this Friday through a statement.

In this way, those 437,000 workers “They do not comply with the legal requirement of having a decrease of 30% or more in their salaries for said month, compared to the average total income of 2019.”

From the universe of irregular cases, 400,603 are private sector workers and 37,100 are state officials, detailed the Service, which indicated that the fiscal resources involved in this benefit amount to 256 million dollars.

Internal Taxes indicated that, faced with this situation, a procedure was “established for workers to restore unduly received amounts, without readjustments, fines or interest, through a platform available on the website of the General Treasury of the Republic, until November 30 “.

However, he warned that “once this process is concluded, the actions regarding those who do not make this return will be determined.”

“The Service will contact these workers in the next few days informing them of their situation, who will have the opportunity to provide information that proves circumstances that may not be considered, “he added.

ANEF: “It is not the same”

Jose Perez, president of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF), made a call not to compare this case, with the collusion of big businessmen.

“It is not the same a collusion of the big businessmen of this country, as is the case of Penta than after the embezzlement and collusion against citizens, ethics classes are sent as public punishment “, clarified Pérez.

“It is not the same when 10 generals collude, and I don’t think they represent all military units, when there are so-called milicogate and pacogate. We have to make a difference. We have responsibly anticipated that those who have made a mistake have the space to reverse that situation …But in a good way, in a good practice“, the representative closed.



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