the audit top Federation (ASF) filed 28 new criminal complaints to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) mismanagement of federal public funds in various entities and municipalities. One of the allegations is the alleged diversion of more than 200 million pesos in the management of the former Governor of Sonora, Guillermo Padrés Elías.
It is the fifth complaint that promotes the ASF before the Attorney General for alleged fraud to the federal Treasury in the management of parents in Sonora. So far none of the open cases has been resolved and there is no stated officials.
This new criminal complaint, filed in late July, corresponds to a financial audit and performance related to the management of the contributions fund for the strengthening of the federative entities in the State of Sonora in 2013. It’s resources that are generally used to set up various infrastructure projects.
What auditors detected is that more than 30 percent of the referred Fund, some 202 million pesos, was not implemented for the works or actions that were covered, but on the other hand, were transferred to other accounts of the State Government without reinstated.
But it is not everything. It was discovered that other 700 thousand pesos were invested without justification in five audited works, and reported the absence of almost 6.5 million pesos related to delays in twelve works fines that had applied. In addition there was mismanagement by 17 million pesos in eight works more.
Even the Auditors detected payments of more than 900 thousand pesos for concepts without running in six works. Add to this lack of blogs in a number of constructions, errors in withholding or filling of documents and invoices, and a total lack of evaluation of the use of resources and its application for strategic purposes.
“In conclusion, the Government of the State of Sonora was not efficient and transparent management of the resources of the Fund, in accordance with the rules and regulations governing its exercise and its goals and objectives were not met,” said the results of the audit 13 – report A-26000-02-1147, which gave rise to the criminal complaint filed by the PGR.
cases Jalisco and Colima
in this new package of criminal charges of the ASF, filed on July 20 with PGR, there are four cases related to irregularities in the State Governments of Jalisco and Colima.
The larger cases in terms of amount correspond to the State of Colima, where the Auditors reported mismanagement that would have generated a fraud to the Treasury for an amount superior to the 500 million pesos in the years 2012 and 2013. The facts correspond to the administration of the former PRI Governor Mario Anguiano Moreno.
Auditors detected, for example, that 43 million pesos from the contribution fund for basic and Normal education were used improperly to pay for unionized workers without that money has been replacement or returned; or that another 166 million pesos were used to finance alleged benefits to workers who were never authorized.
Even the State Government said that it took 90 million for payment of liabilities of payroll and other 87 million pesos for withholding payment to third parties, made in addition to being illegal not checked reliably.
The administration of Anguiano also transferred more than 25 million pesos that received, in 2012, the contributions fund for the strengthening of the federative entities to other separate bank accounts unless is proved nor their destination or their application. The money was not returned.
The ASF concluded the State of Colima lacked – at least so far – of sufficient resources management controls, and on many occasions the total lack of indicators to verify the effect that investments carried out above all related educational funds.
In the case of Jalisco, the ASF filed two criminal in PGR, both complaints related to alleged fraud committed with the Fund’s contributions to basic and Normal education in 2012. This year corresponded to the administration of the former Pan Governor Emilio González Márquez.
Reports results that gave way to the complaints showed, for example, that Jalisco reported payment of nearly two million and half pesos for 15 schools that were in fact closed payroll and other unauthorized six; money has not been returned. In addition, more than 20 million pesos went to teachers who were not exercising but were commissioned to the Union and therefore should not receive these resources.
Even the auditors found that you reported payment of 709 thousand pesos to six workers who were never located by the Auditors in home visits. This multiple payments in addition to that it was inadmissible.
return reports, still impunity
this package of 28 complaints that the ASF is presented at the end of July are the first that drives this institution under the administration of the new auditor-general David Colmenares. During the four months preceding this institution did not submit criminal complaints without known reason for this.
The rest of the complaints presented by the audit – in addition to those already described – correspond to irregularities detected in different municipalities located in Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Nayarit, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Querétaro, Michoacán, Hidalgo, Campeche and Oaxaca.
With these new cases, the ASF reports officially 958 cases promoted to the Federal Public Ministry from 2000 to date. Allegations are against federal agencies and State and municipal governments.
The common denominator in these cases is the impunity.
Animal politician published 9 July that the PGR has failed to close with a conviction or one of the preliminary investigations and portfolios of research initiated by complaints of the audit.
Not only that. So far there is no a single official or ex arrested for these cases, and in fact, there are just 12 cases been brought before a judge without the detainee. This is equivalent to just over one per cent efficiency if we compare the cases stipulated with respect to allegations that the ASF reports that he has presented.
Among the cases that the ASF has reported to the PGR in these years mismanagement are by more than 60 billion pesos in the administration of former Governor Javier Duarte in Veracruz; the irregular agreements signed between federal agencies and universities in the form of “Master scam”; cost overruns in the construction of the Estela de Luz; alleged deviations in resources earmarked for support to the field; among others.
