In Villa Elisa alone, they add up to around G. 1,230 million. Another questioning is that the bids are split so that they are awarded via “Direct Contracting” (DC).
In total, only during 2021, the firm won nine calls for direct hiring and none were raised on the DNCP site.
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
The councilman announced that today, Wednesday, he will file the respective complaint with the Public Ministry.
“We are talking about payments of advances and payments of nonexistent certificates of ‘ghost’ works. These works were not carried out last year, only this year they began to be done. They awarded the company in the month of May, they paid the advance, then the certificate and they did nothing, but when we reported it, they only started doing the work this year”, he denounced.
DNCP
In contact with the communication department of the National Directorate of Public Procurement (DNCP), they answered us that the firm does not have any tender won with the State. What is striking because, in the documents of the commune, some ID numbers of those called appear.
In this regard, they told us that all purchasing processes must be reported to the DNCP without exception, but the Municipality of Villa Elisa created a PAC file (Annual Contracting Plan), which was never sent to Public Contracting.
On the same, the councilor replied that the Municipality does not raise the tenders that it carries out because they are irregular. Therefore, the DNCP is not aware.
Interestingly, the company had Heriberto Trevizon as its legal representative, but after the complaints, it recently changed to Ángel Américo Vera Torres.
IRREGULARITIES
In the G. 1,230 million invested by the commune for the development of the works, the councilman found three main irregularities.
One of the cases is related to the Virgen del Carmen school, located in the Mbocajaty neighborhood. Here a wall was paid in advance, but it was never built.
Juan José Soler School in the 29 de Septiembre neighborhood, where an advance payment was made for a laboratory and its subsequent equipment. The works were paid for in 2021, but the work only began this year.
The third irregularity is found in the Rolando Medina school where 80% of the works were paid for and work has not yet begun.
“In the documentation that we have in view, in all of 2021 the works were not carried out despite the corresponding advances having been delivered,” he criticized.
