The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) presented on August 31 a report and opinion on the budget execution of the year 2021 of public institutions. This report contained more than 500 control activities, as a result of which more than 90 reports of indications of punishable acts were detected.
One of the entities that received the most comments on its budget execution was the National Games of Chance Commission (Conajzar). In total, he received six observations related to the mismanagement of his finances. The first is that the Conajzar authorized the firm i-Crop SA the new operating modality with electronic slot machines, with national scope, without a bidding process and in places accessible to the public, preventing other companies from having the opportunity to present their bids and that the award be made to the best bidder.
The second is that the Conajzar did not apply fines to the company TDP SA for G. 4,110 million, as well as to the companies Daruma SAM SA and Gambling SA for deposits made outside the current legal deadlines, during the period from January 2017 to March. of 2020. This situation led Conajzar to stop receiving considerable income to the detriment of the public treasury.
The third irregularity is that it was shown that the veterans, mutilated and crippled from the Chaco War, did not receive the total amount of G. 9,991 million from fiscal year 2017 to March 2020, preventing them from benefiting from these resources that it granted them the legal regulations, to improve their quality of life as well as that of their family environment.
The fourth irregularity is that the Conajzar did not carry out timely controls and monitoring for the effective distribution, to charities and Fonaress, of the prizes not delivered because the winners corresponding to the fiscal years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 had not been presented. to March 2021 for the total sum of G. 12 billion that were deposited only in 2021 by the companies Talisman SA and Daruma SAM SA This situation caused the National Fund for Solidarity Resources for Health and charitable entities, have not been able to count on the necessary resources to meet their objectives in a timely manner.
