(EFE).- The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, accused this Thursday the government led by Joe Biden of handing the bank over to China “on a silver platter”, after journalistic information pointing because the board of directors would have recommended removing him from his post.
Claver-Carone, an American of Cuban origin, was chosen to head the IDB in September 2020 at the proposal of then-US President Donald Trump (2017-2021).
“It goes beyond the satire that China managed to get into the IDB during the Barack Obama administration and that now the Biden administration is handing it to them again on a silver platter,” Claver-Carone said in an email to Efe.
The manager also called it “shameful” that anonymous sources in the US are speaking to the press before addressing him personally and that the country is not defending Americans against “what is clearly fabricated information.”
Hours earlier, anonymous sources had leaked to the media that the IDB’s board of directors recommended dismissing Claver-Carone and that the decision is now in the hands of the Board of Governors.
The manager also described as “shameful” that anonymous sources in the US are speaking to the press before addressing him personally
The manager also criticized, this Tuesday, an investigation against him for allegedly having had an intimate relationship with an employee, considering that the investigation did not meet international standards of integrity.
However, the head of the agency stressed in a statement that he supported and participated in this “unprecedented” investigation that, according to him, “does not corroborate the false and anonymous accusations” made against him or IDB staff in the press.
According to some media published in April, the IDB was planning to hire an external company to investigate Claver-Carone, after a complaint against him after having had an intimate relationship with an employee, violating the bank’s code of ethics.
In his day, Claver-Carone attributed the complaint to an “anonymous political and media campaign” spurred on by bank staff.
The Reuters agency published this Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the investigation, that independent investigations, carried out by an external company and motivated by complaints from an informant, have found evidence that the president of the IDB had a relationship intimate with an employee.
In his statement, Claver-Carone complained that “it is the first time in the history of any multilateral development bank that this kind of process is carried out” and called the investigation “arbitrary without any formal complaint.”
Laver-Carone complained that “it is the first time in the history of any multilateral development bank that this kind of process has taken place.”
He claimed the investigation “has repeatedly violated” the bank’s ethics rules.
“It has raised seriously questionable practices, including manipulation, distortion and the knowing use of information proven to be unreliable to predetermine an outcome instead of presenting a fair and impartial review,” it said.
Despite this, Claver-Carone assured that he has cooperated “fully” without giving up his “constitutional rights.”
According to Reuters, the findings of the investigation, which lasted for months and has been carried out by the legal firm Davis Polk, were presented on Monday to IDB directors.
The 14 members of the IDB’s board of directors reviewed the report yesterday and met again this Tuesday to evaluate the next steps to be taken, the sources cited by that agency indicated.
Claver-Carone stressed in his note that neither he nor any other member of the IDB staff has had the opportunity to review the final report of the investigation, respond to its conclusions or correct inaccuracies, “in clear and direct violation of the rules of ethics ” of the organism.
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