This Sunday is the deadline for the CAL to rule on the requests for judgment to the Superintendent of Companies and the State Attorney.
The Administrative Council of the Legislature (CAL) plans to deal with five requests for impeachment against four state officials who were imprisoned on the afternoon of October 24; all have reports from the Legislative Technical Unit (UTL) on the process of compliance with requirements.
In the National Assembly, requests for interpellation are presented to the Superintendent of Companies, Víctor Anchundia; the State Attorney, Íñigo Salvador; the comptroller of the surrogate State, Carlos Riofrío; and the Superintendent of Banks, Ruth Arregui.
Of these five requests, for three, the deadline for the CAL to pronounce itself expires on October 24, otherwise they would be filed, the delegate of the Democratic Left (ID) alerted the administrative body, Johanna Moreira.
The processes that are at the doors of his file are the two requests for interpellation faced by the Superintendent of Companies, Víctor Anchundia, presented by legislators Luis Almeida (PSC) and Ricardo Vanegas (Pachakutik), and the request for a trial against the attorney of the State, Íñigo Salvador, raised by the UNES Assemblyman Ferdinan Álvarez.
In the last week, the Legislature’s Political Oversight and Control Commission concluded the impeachment process against the former Minister of Energy and Non-Renewable Resources René Ortiz, whose report recommends the initiation of the interpellation and censorship of the official for determining responsibilities in the increase in fuel prices during the Lenín Moreno government, in addition to the lack of control in the collection of electricity service payrolls during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The processing of this trial in the plenary session of the Assembly is scheduled for this Tuesday from 08:00.
Likewise, the Audit table filed five requests for a lawsuit filed against former Finance Minister Richard Martínez, for excluding the period of one year that the National Assembly has to be able to prosecute a former State official. The accusations against Martínez were related to failing to comply with the timely payment of resources for decentralized autonomous governments, universities, the early payment of foreign debt to bondholders in the midst of the pandemic, and the failure to pay teachers’ retirement compensation. .
Oversight Commission files five requests for impeachment against former Finance Minister Richard Martínez
Superintendent of Companies
Regarding the Superintendent of Companies, Víctor Anchundia, there are two requests for impeachment. The first was presented by Assemblyman Luis Almeida (PSC), on October 4, and the next day the legislator Ricardo Vanegas (Pachakutik) formalized a similar request, for breach of functions in the control of companies that allegedly ended up defrauding the Institute of National Police Social Security (Isspol).
Both Almeida and Vanegas emphasize that Anchundia did not exercise adequate control, that it omitted some inspection procedures of the activities of the companies Ecuagran, Delgran and Delcorp, in relation to the Citadel SA, shares and securities Atlántida and Decevale, which made possible the issuance of securities and the negotiation of invoices without any support that affected the payment of securities of the Social Security Institute of the National Police (Isspol) and the National Magisterium Fund.
Announce political trial against the superintendent of Companies, Víctor Anchundia
According to Vanegas, the official did not exercise control over the issuance of national and foreign bonds and that an approximate loss of $ 990 million would have been caused.
State Attorney
On October 4, Assemblyman Ferdinan Álvarez (UNES) presented a request for impeachment against the State Attorney, Íñigo Salvador, for failure to perform his duties because in two lawsuits filed against the State, the official, instead of defending the interests of the country, he limited himself to saying that international companies should be paid.
According to the interpellant, these are the Perenco and Chevron-Texaco cases against Ecuador, where their lack of diligence and empathy with national causes is demonstrated, to the point of going out to the media to point out that the award must be complied with.
He also accuses him of an alleged breach of functions in pronouncements as State Attorney in acquittals of consultation regarding the restructuring of the Oversight Commission in September 2020, although the motion for its restructuring was presented by Pabel Muñoz (RC), in the session September 14.
It also questions an acquittal of the consultation for the appointment of temporary co-judges of the National Court of Justice carried out in October 2019.
Other breaches refer to the legal report on the ICSID case and an alleged pressure in the contest of merits and opposition for the selection of the public defender.
State Comptroller
On October 7, Assemblyman Ronny Aleaga (UNES) presented a request for impeachment against the general comptroller of the surrogate State, Carlos Riofrío, for failing to fulfill functions regarding his powers in the preparation of the preliminary reports for the contracting of works.
According to the interpellant, in the Organic Law of the Comptroller’s Office there is talk of previous reports for the contracting of works, but the current deputy comptroller in September published a message on the social network of Twitter announcing a reformulation of the tables for the previous reports, then Of this, it issued a regulation where it provides that preliminary reports must be made only in works over $ 900,000, which contradicts what the Law indicates on previous reports for all types of public works, he maintains.
Aleaga presents as evidence a contract for $ 400,000 with the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL) and that, according to what he said, has problems in the processes and was not subject to a prior report for its hiring, therefore, a regulation cannot be by above the Law.
Superintendent of Banks
The assemblyman of Pachakutik Darwin Pereira, on October 13, presented a request for impeachment against the Superintendent of Banks, Ruth Arregui, for eight alleged breaches of functions related to the lack of control in the operation of the country’s financial institutions .
He questions that during the health emergency caused by COVID-19, some institutions of the financial system charged interest on interest and values that were not considered in the Humanitarian Law, which prevented users from renegotiating their debts despite which the Superintendent of Banks did nothing about it.
The accusations include the cybersecurity problem registered by Banco Pichincha. According to the legislator, it affected 5 million people who could not carry out their transactions.
He also questions the lack of control over houses and places where people’s money deposits are received under the pyramid mode. Another accusation is the setting of interest rates and regulation of banks. (I)
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