According to lawyer Ernesto Cedeño, one of the applicants, these funds ended up in communities largely dominated by the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party without knowing where they were invested.
The lawyer told TVN news channel that the work that the National Assembly (Parliament) will adopt in the coming days is important – the regular sessions will start on July 1st – because there they will have to require the auditor Gerardo Solís to reports submitted.
In his opinion, the control activity of the legislature allows a person to appear who has so far remained silent in the face of the alleged waste of state resources.
On the other hand, he pointed out, prosecutor Javier Caraballo must instruct compliance judges to demand compliance with embezzlement penalties imposed on officials who nevertheless continue to administer state funds.
Another supervisory authority is the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, who could force the director of the National Decentralization Agency, Edward Mosley, to report on this process, but he is doing nothing, he noted.
Mosley himself recently told the press that there is no parallel decentralization, “all funds under management are regulated by law,” he said.
He also pointed out that local authorities report to communities at the end of a fiscal year, in addition to the citizen survey.
Complaints about this have been joined by complaints from a group of independent MPs, leaders of the Vamos coalition and the Otro Camino movement, who are calling for an investigation into the diversion of funds from the parallel decentralization.
For its part, the Accounting Attorney General’s Office reported that it had requested 40 reports from the Auditor General’s Office since 2020 and had only received a single report so far.
In this regard, they indicated that the standard does not provide a specific time for the auditor to carry out the audit, while this body indicated that it does not have the necessary resources to carry out its work.
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