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After the Government ruled out the possibility of applying a “pardon” to the 437,703 workers who received the Middle Class Bonus without meeting the necessary requirements, the Green Social Regionalist Federation announced a project to establish, at least, an “amnesty” in favor of the people involved.
Although the law that enabled the aid only considers criminal sanctions for those who obtained the loan by deception, which was the other mechanism of that package for the middle class, the Public Ministry announced that it could open a criminal investigation for possible “grant fraud” against those who obtained the bonus “by way of” declaring an amount less than the real one in their salaries for July.
In this frame, the FRVS proposal that they “amnesty”, that is, “they should not be criminally prosecuted, because for the State itself to carry out 437 thousand criminal cases is a true madness, and on the other hand we also know that it is a situation that is rather due to equivocal reasons, “said the deputy Jaime Mulet, president of the community.
However, he specified, “it is a project that does not prevent the State from recovering the money; there are formulas for it, usually through tax returns.”
SENATOR MONTES: “THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE SILVER IS RECOVERED”
Among those 437 thousand people, the Internal Revenue Service detected that 37,100 are State officials, which worries some in the Senate Finance Committee, as stated by the socialist Carlos Montes.
“The reasons, the situations (that led to the request for the bonus) are diverse, because the information that some people have is that here there are policemen, teachers; the composition is much more complex, in that sense I would have a broad vision of the problem” He said, along with affirming that “the important thing is that people pay and get the money back.”
The fiscal resources involved amount to $ 256 million, encrypted the SII when it reported the situation last week.
Internal Taxes indicated then that, in the face of 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”.
MINISTER BRIONES DISMISSES “ERROR” OF THE DESIGN
“I have heard some leaders point out that this is part of a design error,” the Minister of Finance began in turn. Ignacio Briones, who later dismissed that.
“Officials will be able to say what they want, but here there is a law that regulated the process, provided the inspection tools that are being applied quickly, and regarding the, quotation marks, error, I can send if you want what size was the poster that is displayed with an affidavit “on the platform to request the voucher;” it is not something that passed by or was not seen, “he said.
He noted, meanwhile, that “cases will be discarded, validated and sanctioned as appropriate.”
Regarding possible actions of the Prosecutor’s Office, the SII has not yet sent the Public Ministry the complete list of the fraudulent cases detected.
