The owner of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE), Betsy Chavezwas pronounced through a statement in which he denied having favored people close to his environment with appointments to public office.
“I reject such speculations that are based on showing me in a photo with a person who does not hire or is an official of any ministry that has been or is in my position. I emphasize that no relative of mine, close or distant, has benefited from designations of any kind.”, reads in the office.
Likewise, he maintained that the contracts made by his congressional office “They have been duly filtered by the Human Resources offices of Congress and fall within the law.”
Statement from Betssy Chavez. Photo: document
In that sense, Chinese Chavez She stated that as a parliamentarian and Minister of State she cannot “take responsibility for the alleged acts or omissions of functions, except for those that do not correspond” to her sector.
At another time, the owner of the PETM described as “biased” and that “obeys interests” the report issued by “Fourth Estate.” The newspaper reported that the father and brother of Abel Sotelo —with whom he is romantically linked— would have benefited from public office.
“I regret the siege of which my mother, my family and even my 90-year-old father have been victims, who have even been searched for the complaints in which they have been mentioned at some time in their lives, without having to do with me, and even less with my congressional or ministerial function ”, reads another part of the statement.
Betsy Chavez He also referred to the recent preliminary investigation that the Prosecutor’s Office opened against him for alleged crimes of incompatible negotiation or use of the position and aggravated influence peddling. In this regard, he expressed that he is not surprised by the “selectivity of officiousness” of the Prosecutor of the Nation, Patricia Benavidesby “initiating preliminary proceedings” based on “insinuations.”
“I am not surprised by the selective officiousness of Mrs. Patricia Benavides to initiate preliminary proceedings based on the insinuations of a Sunday program that it does not even mention any objective element that proves that I have been interested in a contest, tender or similar (requirement for incompatible negotiation) or that I have interfered in any way in a judicial/administrative process (requirement to contemplate influence peddling), for which, without having the ‘investigation’ any legal support, I hope it has the destination that corresponds to it “
