Carlos Loving Baret was again questioned by another audit of the Camera of accounts, the last released by that agency yesterday Wednesday and corresponding to the financial statements of the Ministry of Education (MINERD), between January 2016 to December 2018.
Among the findings of this latest study, which includes the last eight months of the management From the then leader of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), there are alleged “disbursements without proof of liquidation”, “payments made without annexing the listings of beneficiaries” and “Bank balances not presented”. The politician no longer belongs to that organization, because he was expelled “by betrayal.”
The amount of irregularitiesaccording to the supervisory body amounts to More than 253 billion of pesos in the management of Loving Baret (from January to August 2016) and Andrés Navarro (from August 16, 2016 to December 2018).
Both Officials respond to each questioning of the auditas read in the investigation of the Experts Hang on the web of the organism.
One of Navarro’s replicas was that “for reasons of temporality it was not materially possible for our management deliver the documentation required by the CCRD (Camera of accounts of the Dominican Republic), because we finish our management in it MINERD on 02-26-2019 and requests for documentation requirements were after that date. “
Some of the defenses of Amarante Baret
About the Observations What do the Experts As for you found that “The Ministry of Education presents differences in the registration of fixed assets acquisitions, between the System Accounting (Dynamics) and System Integrated Property Administration (SLAB), of the machinery and equipment account (120601), worth $ 2,152,489,415., RD $ 636,993,716., And RD $ 1,929,002,010., Corresponding to the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 “, the former official replied:
- “It is marked difference that is observed between the System Accounting (Dynamics) and System Integrated Property Administration (SIAB), obeys a delay in charge of the Department of Heritage of the MINERD that the information should be manually lifted and loaded in the SIAB, while in the System Accounting the asset was loaded automatically. “
To this argumentation of the former minister of MINERDthe Camera of accounts concludes that the former official “admits weakness, so we conclude that it remains.”
“Advertising service without evidence of monitoring”
Others of the irregularities that cites the analysis is that of the account of advertising Executed by the Ministry of Education, during the 2016-2018 audited period, in which “it was verified that there are payments for a value of RD $ 230,094,579., In which the process of monitoring carried out to validate the service received by the suppliers. “
Loving He argued that in his management did not hire a company to manage the supervision of the advertising Contracted, but that the General Directorate of Communications and Public Relations “demanded” the monthly remission of advertising guidelines to contracts, which were randomly monitored from said address.
Navarro said they received “at the end of each placement of the advertising material the certifications of guidelines and inserts of the different radial, digital, printed and television media, as a guarantee of faithful compliance with the services established between the Ministry and the Middle Hired.”
“From the General Directorate of Communications and Public Relations, we kept vigilant and constantly monitoring the different media with which we maintained advertising commitments, related to guarantee the fulfillment contracted and also ensure the dissemination of the already agreed guidelines.”
Lack of controls in the process of management of Users of the financial system
At this point, on the evaluation of the assignment procedure of accounts of Users of the System Financial Microsoft Dynamics Ax to employees who, in the position or position profile, require this type of credentials, it was found that hired by the MINERD and that they were assigned a account of Users “They do not sign an acceptance document of use when receiving their access credentials.”
Nor “there is an established procedure that allows to deactivate or withdraw in a timely manner access to the accounts of Users Belonging to personnel who have been disconnected or resigned from the entity, this process also applies to the personnel who have taken vacations, “adds the audit.
Explain the Camera of accounts that the Standard for the Safety of Information and Communication Technologies in the Dominican State Nortic A7 of 2016, section 3.01 User Access Control, establishes that “government agencies must make a review, modification or elimination of The accesses of the Users at the time they are canceled, promoted or transferred. “
In this regard, Loving Baret replied that, “the procedure for the request for creation and allocation of roles to the Users of the financial system were requested through emits issued by the corresponding department. These requests were not processed physically and therefore they did not have a firm. “
He added that the General Directorate of Information and Communication Technology (DGTIC) “had a procedure where the criteria for operation of the operability of the Users and at the time of the disconnects it was notified of human resources for its deactivation. “
It is not the first time that an audit questions it
In 2021, Carlos Loving Baret appealed before the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) Resolution Aud-2020-036dated October 27, 2020, dictated by the Plenary of the Camera of accounts of the Dominican Republic (CCRD), in which this agency sent to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Persecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) a report to the Ministry of Education, from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014 .
This period also covers part of the management of the former official, appointed by President Danilo Medina in July 2013 to August 2016.
In March 2021, three months after the Public Ministry received the report, Loving Baret was questioned by the Pepca and since then that auditthat the former minister described as a “legal adefe made with bad faith.”
He attributed it to the “ridiculous” of the previous plenary session of the agency to his eagerness to “look for the side of the new government (of Luis Abinader)”, and that they could not audit with objectivity because they were also investigated by the Public Ministry.
At that time, the Chamber Accounts was chaired by Hugo Álvarez Pérez and was made up of Pedro Antonio Ortiz Hernández, Carlos Noés Tejada Díaz, Margarita Melenciano Corporán and Félix Álvarez Rivera, who was also initiated an investigation that was called Caracol operation.
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Pepca interrogates former Minister of Education Loving Baret
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