translated from Spanish: Commander-in-chief of the army met with CPLT president and said his travels have been “perfectly regular”

On Wednesday afternoon, the commander-in-chief of the Army, General Ricardo Martínez, ruled out irregularities in the trips he has carried out by directing the country’s oldest military branch. Martínez responded to inquiries as to the information that Minister Romy Rutherford has asked for details of the journeys of the last four chiefs of the army on one of the edges of the investigation for eventual institutional embezzlement. The military chief defended that the six trips he has made so far have been “perfectly regular and smooth.” According to the officer, such transfers occurred between March 2018 and June 2019. His statements came after an extensive meeting with the President of the Council for Transparency (CPLT), Jorge Jaraquemada and after that, on Tuesday, it was known that Rutherford asked the institution to facilitate the departures of the country from all its Headlines from 2006. The judge and Minister of the Martial court investigates the so-called edge “tourism companies”, a case that is investigated as a possible triangulation of funds in the purchase of tickets from the army, where monies that ended in the bank accounts of some Uniformed, plus a pleasant holiday with tax costs.

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