Former minister Lea Giménez strongly questioned the robbery carried out by Efraín Alegre during his time at the Ministry of Works, where an audit carried out by the presidency of Fernando Lugo revealed a nail of 37 million dollars.
A lapidary report prepared by the General Audit Office of the Executive Power (AGPE) during the administration of Fernando Lugo reveals that Efraín Alegre managed the MOPC as a “bowling alley”. The audit was never revealed and should have been sent to the Attorney General’s Office. The document indicates a US$37 million worth of damage committed by Efraín Alegre as head of the MOPC. cases were discovered planning, stopped works, fuel theft, machinery, rigged tenders and other pearls. Lugo threw Alegre out of the MOPC after finding out about the ferocious money grab that had been taking place.
In this regard, the Former Minister of Finance, Lea Giménezindicated in the program La Caja Negra (Unicanal) that this is only a portion of the management of Efraín Alegre in the MOPC, so surely the amount is much higher in the case of analyzing his entire administration of the public entity.
Withering audit reveals scandalous money swallowing by MOPC.
? “We find ourselves with an administrative disorder, disorder is the breeding ground for corruption”.
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“Unfortunately I’m not surprised nothing, because when we arrived we found a administrative disorderdisorder is breeding ground for corruptionis the perfect space for this to be generated, as in Public Works”, he pointed out.
He criticized that the Opponents “fill their mouths with public management and the fight against corruption” being that his “management was one of the worst that there was in democracy.”
“This is not money that was stolen, nothing else, they are works that were not done, people who were left without roads, without bridges, etc. When it is not stolen, the money is enough, ”she lashed out.
Withering audit reveals scandalous money swallowing by MOPC.
? “This is not money that was stolen, it is works that were not done, they were left without roads, without bridges, etc”.
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Regarding the MOPC budget of the Efraín era, the former Minister of Finance revealed that they found “bags of money”, as they called the lack of data that allows us to know how the projects were executed at that time. “No one knew how the money was used, there was zero traceability of the use of public resources”, he delved.
He highlighted that the minister of the Chartist era, Ramón Jiménez Gaona, was able to put the house in order through five years of hard work and achieved a million-dollar savings for the Paraguayan State. “During his time it went down from 1 million dollars to 700 thousand. There you have a saving of 30% per kilometer of asphalt, it’s a lot, that additional 300 thousand dollars per kilometer of road is the money found in the audit report. This It is the money that they happily pocketed in this period (from Efraín), without blushing Apparently,” he explained.
On the other hand questioned the Concertación for not going out to ask his presidential candidate for explanations. “At the end of the day, everyone is silent in the face of this reality that cannot be hidden,” he said.
He also said that the Concertación is “a bag of cats with scattered visions” and that its members do not have a plan of what to do if they are victorious in the elections. “Imagine that this is a work team that comes together to win, predictability that it will be a disaster, a government plan does not exist. We know that Efraín is going to be a disaster, it is going to generate administrative disorder, history is going to repeat itself, ”he warned.
Withering audit reveals scandalous money swallowing by MOPC.
? “(Soledad Núñez) I am very sorry that she is willing to accompany this character in order to become vice president.”
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He finally regretted the silence of Soledad Núñez, candidate for vice president of the Coalition. “It saddens me very much that she, in order to become vice president, is willing to accompany this character, silent and making unsubstantiated accusations“. He also said that he does not believe that Núñez is unaware of the mismanagement of his presidential duo, since “we all know Efraín Alegre.”
It’s news today: Alegre left a nail of US$ 37 million in the MOPC, reveals an audit of Lugo
Efraín Alegre’s period at the MOPC.
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