The Commission for Justice and State Structure will define a new calendar of appearances within the inspection process that began on the case called “The Great Godfather”, which reveals alleged acts of corruption in state public companies.
That legislative table informed the president of the National Assembly, Virgilio Saquicela, of the start of the audit on this alleged case of corruption denounced by the digital media The post. This procedure was applied to the announcements from the side of the Correísmo bench that they will request the integration of an occasional multi-party commission in plenary session.
The president of the Justice Commission, Alejandro Jaramillo, pointed out that the organic law of the Legislative Function in its article 26 numeral 3 determines that when a legislative commission prevents the knowledge of a process of control and political control, no other commission may require the appearance of authorities or servers on the same matter or matter; and, therefore, it corresponds to the authorities of the National Assembly, as well as to the assembly members and legislative officials to respect and strictly comply with what is mandated by the law that governs that State Function, and, if required, coordinate actions with the assembly members of the Commission for Justice and State Structure to assist in the corresponding process.
A week ago, the commission summoned eleven people from the journalist, officials and former officials and even Danilo Carrera, brother-in-law of the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, to give their version regarding an alleged participation in acts of corruption in companies public.
From the list, only the journalist from La Posta, Andersson Boscán, and Ivan Correa, National Secretary of the Public Administration, attended, but in that same session it was decided to insist on the invitation to those who did not attend the appearance.
On the list are Danilo Carrera, Rubén Cherrez, Oswaldo Rosero Quiroz, manager of Flopec; Nicolás Andrade, manager of the Electricity Corporation of Ecuador; Hugo Aguiar Lozado manager of Petroecuador; Hernán Luque Lecaro, former manager of the company that coordinates public companies Emco; Antonio Icaza, manager of the General Electricity Corporation.
Ítalo Cedeño, former manager of the Petroecuador company, and Joaquín Ponce Díaz, president of the EMCO board of directors, were also called.
Legislator Alejandro Jaramillo, stated that new calls will be sent these days for former officials and those who are currently in office to attend; as well as representatives of the political party indicated in the audios.
Jaramillo pointed out that the Justice Commission will carry out a concurrent political control in the face of new exposed audios where amounts of money and profits in public companies are discussed; and indicated that the commission also receives information that will serve as the basis for presenting the report to the plenary session.
So far there is no date for the new appearances because the information received is still being processed, said Jaramillo
information requests
Legislator Ricardo Vanegas, delegate of Pachakutik before the Justice commission, requested a series of information from public companies about the contracts signed and even regarding cases of money laundering.
The director of the Internal Revenue Service, Francisco Briones Rugel, requested the tax status, transactions, VAT declarations and income tax for the years 2021 and 2022, and to report if there were alerts of an alleged money laundering of at least 21 companies and three individuals: Rubén Chérrez, Jorge Orbe Calderón and Julio César León Baquerizo.
Regarding the same companies, he requested information from the Superintendent of Companies, Marco López, regarding the constitution of the companies and their representatives, reports and audit reports.
The general director of the National Public Contracting Service, María Sara Jijón, requested information on all the contracts awarded to 21 companies.
The general comptroller of the surrogate State, Carlos Riofrío, requested information if there is an audit plan for public companies with low risks and conflicts of interest.
It also requested information from the Comptroller regarding whether the process of hiring personnel, dismissal of personnel from the Ministry of Public Health, IESS and its affiliated entities, EMCO, and public companies and the Ministry of Energy and Mines for the year 2022, has been evaluated. in which the analysis of the structure by processes is included, and that the higher hierarchical level of free appointment and removal meets the profile as required by the level of complexity in each detailed dependency, in addition to public contracting in the strategic sector.
If the internal audits of the Superintendencies of Companies, Securities and Insurance; Control of the Market, Territory, Popular and Solidarity Economy and the Internal Revenue Service, the risk assessment of money laundering and its operation has been incorporated; since the activities of operators that are not public servants, have been alerted by tax control, unusual financial movements, creations of national or foreign companies for their operation, and these entities are the calls for the control of natural and legal persons in the fight against money laundering and the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.
If the internal audits of EMCO and public companies evaluate the functioning of the board of directors and decision-making; which include the call, the meeting method, the decision-making method, the annual purchasing plan, annual investment plan, strategic plan, maintenance plans, business continuity plan, disaster plans and compliance with indicators of strategic planning. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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