The justice condemned for corruption an official of the Social Welfare Bank (bps) that trafficked worker data so that vendors of AFAP Republic affiliated with that institution. It also sold databases to accounting firms and other companies. The BPS and República AFAP had taken action when they discovered the maneuver; in the fund manager they fired salespeople who contacted the official accused of corruption.
The maneuver was denounced in the first days of December 2020 by BPS lawyers and the investigation was carried out by Interpol financial crime detectives.
The convicted person is a 65-year-old public official in charge of the San Jacinto BPS agency, who has been carrying out the maneuver since 2016, according to the police investigation.
Those who benefited from this information, to enroll workers and collect a commission, paid him through transfers to the Banco República account that his partner has.
The detectives seized the employee’s computer and there they found the email exchanges that corroborated the reported facts.
The prosecutor for economic crimes, Enrique Rodríguez, obtained a conviction for the official on Thursday for the crime of corruption, that is, qualified bribery.
At the request of the prosecutor, the Justice sentenced the public employee with one day in prison and 19 months of probation, with other measures, such as reporting to the police station once a week and performing community services for four months.
The case ended with an agreement to suspend the sentence in exchange for an economic sanction equivalent to a fine of 600,000 pesos.
