translated from Spanish: Drago case: Senator Araya’s criticism and the trade to the CPLT

Landing in the private world continues to cause headaches for former President of the Council for Transparency (CPLT), Marcelo Drago.
Following El Mostrador’s report on the “revolving door” that meant his passage from the entity that monitors the good practices of state institutions to Magliona Abogados, a study dedicated to lobbying in favor of the tech giant Google, the case came to Congress.
At the session of the Constitution Commission on Tuesday, independent Senator Pedro Araya asked the secretariat of the instance for a list of the companies that have made lobbying and on behalf of whom, by the draft personal data, an issue of which Drago is an expert.
“It is a project that we know is high sensitivity and for which technology companies and that store data are very concerned,” the parliamentarian said of an initiative whose implementation once it is law will be the responsibility of the CPLT.
The parliamentarian also requested that an office be dispatched to the CPLT and the Comptroller General of the Republic so that they could report on what was caused by Drago’s departure from the entity.
Araya’s onslaught represents a new headache for Drago. While the lawyer explains that his landing at the specialized firm “perfectly conforms to current legislation and standards of public ethics,” the Council for Transparency thinks differently and yesterday issued a statement that the “revolving door” between the public and private sectors is “very under-regulated.”

Original source in Spanish