translated from Spanish: Morelia government conducts 14 internal audits

Morelia, Michoacán.- The Morelian administration indicated that, in joint work the Syndicature and Municipal Contraloria, different control, supervision and surveillance mechanisms were implemented in all areas of the City Council.
In a prevention action and to ensure compliance with the public servants of the Municipal Government, 14 internal audits were carried out by the Contraloria by the Contraloría, by Norberto Bedolla Rendón, to various units and entities of the municipal public administration to monitor the correct administrative development and efficiency in the application of public resources, as well as the implementation of various assessments to internal and external performance that resulted in the implementation of improvement actions to 16 units 9 decentralized entities.
In the company of the Trustee, Labinia Aranda Ortega, the attorney general Christian Omar Segura Alanís, Bedolla Rendón detailed the establishment of 145 administrative responsibilities proceedings against former public servants of the previous municipal administration, since his arrival in Contraloría Municipal at 5 months. At the same time, 158 investigations of alleged administrative misdeeds arising from public works audits were initiated as in the review of paid service benefit contracts that were not delivered in the previous three-year period, which in monetary amount for the damage caused amounts to 139 million pesos.
The Municipal Comptroller assured that in his powers of investigation, detection and sanction of administrative faults and acts of corruption specified that of the 145 open procedures, 23 were for serious misconduct such as abuse of functions, contempt, bribery, misuse of information and trafficking in influences that will be referred at the conclusion to the Court of Administrative Justice of the State for resolution.
In this regard, the Attorney General of the Syndicature, Christian Segura, referred that 41 complaints have been filed with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office on Combating Corruption of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Michoacán, against former municipal public servants for contracting ghost companies and the crime of illicit use of powers and powers.
Finally, the comptroller, Norberto Bedolla announced that by 2021 10 new complaints will be filed with the Prosecutor’s Office specializing in Combating Corruption against former public servants of the previous municipal administration for the crime of illicit use of powers and powers amounting to an amount of 12.5 million pesos.
Likewise, since the Syndicature and its work, the Government of Morelia was the first municipality in the state to implement a tool to eradicate labour harassment by creating the Protocol for the Prevention, Care and Sanction to Sexual Harassment in the field of labor of the municipal administration.
Regarding the complaint filed by the Syndicature in July 2019 with the Office specialized in Combating Corruption by Anomalies Detected in housing support programs and against 7 former public officials amounting to 8 million 692 thousand pesos, it was referred to the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic in determining that it is a federal crime.
On the complaint of fraud against the company responsible for the final destination of solid waste of the municipality and 5 former public servants before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the State Attorney General’s Office totaling 56 million 792 thousand pesos, the initial hearing was set for 01 March 2021 and as an additional action was established from August of this year , the Special Commission for the Review and Surveillance of the Legal, Administrative and Financial Status of all public service concessions granted by the Morelia City Council of previous administrations.

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