The entity’s Board of Directors seeks to dismantle a network of corruption that operates within the institution. The network would have been asking for money in exchange for speeding up payments to external providers, for years.
Through a statement, the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) announced that this Thursday, February 3, 2022, he stopped at flagrant crime still official of that entity.
He was found asking for money in exchange for starting the process of pay still external provider.
According to Carolina Moreano, attorney general of the IESS, for several weeks they have been following the trail of a corruption network that would have been operating for years. In other words, the detained official it would only be part of a larger fabric.
“Today a man was arrested. official of our institution that asked for an amount of money and a percentage to be able to cancel and expedite the procedures of the external providers“, He said.
After presenting the complaint before the prosecution, Moreano stressed that everything points to “that it is a whole structure within the institution. We are on the trail. Today we have done a whole operation ».
The authorities assure that in the next few days they will give more details of the plot of corruption.
This situation adds to others irregularities that have been revealed in recent weeks. For example, on January 31, 2022, Nelson García, general director of the IESS, revealed that since September of last year, 548 public procurement processes have been canceled due to the number of irregularities found.
The first President of the Board of Directors, during the Government of Guillermo Lasso, resigned after just a couple of months, arguing that corruption and internal mafias within the institution did not allow him to work.
#IESSteInforma | The current administration, led by Francisco Cepeda, fights against corruption and carries out actions for transparency. pic.twitter.com/0dupFvY6jt
— IESS (@IESSec) February 4, 2022
