On Monday afternoon the former manager of the Food Production Support Company (Emapa), Franklin Flores, was apprehended at home and A few hours later his partner Marvin Vargas Venegas fell, who was his administrator When the state company run. The Prosecutor’s Office investigates them for crimes of public corruptionas illicit enrichment.
The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the apprehension of the main Flores collaborator and is looking for two other people who worked closely with the former Emapa manager. Prosecutors affirm that the money that flowers and Vargas have accumulated do not co -unknown with the level of income they received in the positions they held.
In the case of Flores, it is more complicated, because On July 31 of this year, he declared Bs 2,836,000 in assets and three assets, according to the Portal of the Comptroller General of the State (CGE).
The researchers suspect, because the salary of the former manager was Bs 15,950 per month, which means that He had to save all his salary for 14 years to accumulate Bs 2.8 million heritage and also acquire three goods at that time.
Flores was appointed as Emapa manager in May 2021 The beginning of September was only known that it was replaced in the position by Richard Rojas. Before being a manager of Emapa, he was a uninominal deputy of the Circumscripen 18 of La Paz.
In the case of Marvin Vargas, This presented its affidavit in February of this year, no longer as part of Emapabut as an official of the decentralized public institution of fishing and aquaculture and He said he had no goods and did not declare the amount of his income.
In June 2024, deputy Héctor Arce denounced that Emapa, with flowers at the head, acquired Rafael Arce, son of President Luis Arce, industrial amounts of corn and wheat for which he paid Bs 18.2 million. Flores did not specify that purchase and said he worked “with all the producers.”
In addition, He was syndicated to have negotiated the purchase of flour from the bakery leader, Rubén Ríos, who would have created a product importer to sell to Emapa. According to Flores, there are all the discharges that the prosecutor will ask for, although he believes that the questions in the Public Ministry only refer to the building of the potato plant in Viacha.
