Recently, a scandal in the Municipality of Artigas has caused controversy in the community. The information about the allegedly irregular salary of an official, Stefani Severohas gone viral on social media and has been the subject of political discussion.
Severo’s December salary receipt indicates that his basic salary is 45,188 pesos, in addition to an additional compensation of 40% (18,075 pesos), 93,979 pesos for overtime (196 overtime hours) and 26,861 pesos for work on holidays (53 hours). This total nominal salary reaches 181,000 pesos, even exceeding that of the general secretary of the mayor’s office.
However, this is particularly striking considering that Severo’s working hours are only 6 hours a day at the mayor’s office, which means that he would have to have worked at least 15 hours a day all month to justify the amount of overtime that is required. they paid him.
Stefani Severo is the partner of the general secretary of the mayor’s office, Rodolfo Caram, and the sister of a municipal official. Rodolfo is Pablo’s cousin, the mayor. The leak of the salary receipt has led to a complaint by the woman and the summons to testify of more than 20 people who shared the document on WhatsApp.
This scandal has drawn attention to the need for transparency and responsibility in public management, and has generated criticism both from the political opposition and from within the National Party itself, which has held power in Artigas since 2015.
The explanation of the aforementioned
Councilors of the Broad Front and the Colorado Party presented the respective criminal complaints against the administration of the mayor of the National Party, Pablo Caram. The newspaper The country He tried to contact the mayor and the general secretary but neither of them came to answer the calls.
“I’m on leave for the first time in seven years,” says Mayor Caram from Maldonado and refuses to talk about it. For his part, the director of the Artigas Treasury, Juan Guruceaga, accepted calls and assured the outlet that, last month, the internal mayor, Elita Volpi (notary public, member of the Colorado Party) ordered that the matter be investigated.
“Once we found out, we talked about it and Elita has already requested that an administrative investigation be opened in this regard,” said Guruceaga. “The issue went to legal and we are just beginning to investigate,” he added.
