The assembly members consider that the secretary Sara Jerves failed to tell the truth of the facts.
A group of assembly members asked the president of the National Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, to remove the rapporteur secretary of the Guarantees Commission, Sara Jerves García, for non-compliance with functions and a lack of truth during the process of investigation and preparation of the report. about the Pandora Papers case.
The document requesting the separation of Jerves is signed by legislators Sofía Sánchez and Édgar Quezada (Pachukutik), Gruber Zambrano (PSC) and Virgilio Saquicela (BAN).
On December 7, the National Assembly approved a resolution regarding the report of the investigation on the Pandora Papers that urges the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, to go to the plenary session of the legislature to explain his possible direct and indirect relationship on property and asset ownership in tax havens.
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Numeral 15 of article 12 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function determines that it is the responsibility of the president of the Assembly to appoint and hire the reporting secretaries and sub-secretaries reporting the commissions at the request of the president of the Guarantees Commission.
The assembly members report that the reporting secretary is responsible for the transcription and attesting to the minutes of each session, as well as the systematization of the inputs, observations and criteria issued, but that Jerves delegated to administrative personnel.
Regarding the investigation into the Pandora Papers, the document sent to Llori indicates that the Commission’s reporting secretary, on November 3, 2021 at 6:26 p.m., sent the assembly members’ emails the call for the session with the final draft report, to which he did not attach the annexes that supposedly support the report.
That the lack of diligence of the secretary, Sara Jerves, has led to a discussion regarding whether or not there is evidence in the Pandora Papers case, since she had to send the evidence that she had, however, these were sent on November 7, 2021, that is, two days after the report was approved.
Nor did it forward the documentation that was required in the investigation of the Pandora Papers, as well as the non-binding technical-legal reports prepared by the Legislative Technical Unit on this case.
Likewise, the assembly members inform the president of the legislature that the secretary Sara Jerves certified that the content of the investigation report of the case called Pandora Papers was known and debated in the plenary session of the Commission on Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, Collective Rights and the Interculturality, in the session held on November 5, 2021, which -according to the assembly members- did not happen and this can be corroborated by the video of the session, therefore, “the reporter secretary is lying and it is not possible that the Commission has an official who is failing to tell the truth of the facts ”. (I)
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