The former manager of the Food Production Support Company (Emapa) Franklin Flores, declared Bs 2,836,000 in assets and three declared assets before the Comptroller General of the State (CGE). This Friday he reappeared and said he will wait for the call for justice and that he will not flee from the country.
“I don’t think I amenite voluntarily (to the prosecution), But to the call we will be, at this time I understand that it is in the process of investigation. We will contribute with all the technical, legal reports, which has been generated about this industrial potato plant, ”said Emapa’s exexecutive.
Prosecutor Johan Muñoz explained that There is an investigation against flowers for the crime of corruption Because a report of the Vice Ministry of Transparency detected that the income that the former manager had is not related to the declared assets. Together with him, two of his collaborators are also investigated.
“In the bank accounts that they would have, there are money amounts that are not according to the amounts they would receive As public officials, that is, there is money that is not legally justified, ”said prosecutor Muñoz.
In June 2024, deputy Héctor Arce denounced That Emapa, with flowers at the head, acquired the son of President Luis Arce industrial amounts of corn and wheat for which he paid Bs 18.2 million. Flores did not specify that purchase and said that he worked “with all the producers” at the time he worked in Emapa.
In addition, He was a syndicated to have negotiated the purchase of flour from a bakery leaderwho created an importer of the product to sell to Emapa. According to Flores, there are all the discharges that the prosecutor will ask for, although he believes that the questions in the Public Ministry only refer to the building of the potato plant in Viacha.
“Now there are countless people who reportetc., well they do it because they finally believe in that and an investigation comes and that is discarded based on the backs they have, ”Flores justified.
The Prosecutor’s Office still did not formally cite the former Emapa managerwhose salary was Bs 15,950 per month, which means that he had to save his entire salary for 14 years to accumulate the 2.8 million heritage and also acquire three goods at that time.
Flores was appointed as Emapa manager in May 2021 The beginning of September was only known that it was replaced in the position by Richard Rojas. Before being a manager of Emapa, he was a uninominal deputy of the Circumscripen 18 of La Paz.
