translated from Spanish: Bermudez: “there is full confidence in the work of a team of Auditors”

the Comptroller General of the Republic, Jorge Bermudez, said Monday that was not going to give up his position, threatened by the UDI to introduce a constitutional accusation together against him, after the broadcast of a report where it states that municipal deficit established by Comptroller may be different, depending on the formula applied to calculate them. Bermudez defended himself, his team’s work and the methodology used to perform audits, as happened in the case of Viña del Mar. The controller assessed “the work being done there,” especially by the cash balance”in the first instance, the Authority explained that in the case of the commune who heads Mayor Virginia Reginato, had a balance in case that was going to be used by the Ministry of the Cultures to finalize outstanding works such as the restoration of the Municipal Theatre, by which the auditor did not count it. He also stressed that there were documents and invoices whose amounts were not reflected in the books of account, and were later added by the auditor in charge. “The auditor should know how to take that information and put it into the audit”, he said. “There is full confidence in the work teams of Auditors have done,” he said. Finally, I can assure you that the accusations made from the UDI, based on the story of the third, where the criteria is criticized for doing the audit, are not weight. “What happens is that here always takes place the problem of the auditor and the problem of the controller: when they begin to appear things starting to bother, then there are people who believes that you have to do is not perfect control, or make your own paste better” “, but attack is he doing his job”, said. He assured that his sayings were making reference to “internal discussions on a table”, but this is not a gravity. He ruled out that there is a change of criteria between one and another municipality to conduct inspections. In that line, said that those who made such work did based on information on the table “and another” for the auditing work. Finally, the Comptroller said that the inspections are made with “certified material”, and above all with “which is not on the table, that is ignoring and that, therefore, the auditor will have to ponder to find out how you can carry out this audit”.

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