24% of the public investment executed in 2024 was financed with resources from the canon and royalties of the mining sector, said Nelson Shack, former controller of the Republic.
In 2024, public investment grew 3.2% when S/58 billion was executed at the national level, compared to S/51.7 million registered in 2023.
“The fourth part of all public investment is related to the mining sector,” he said during his exhibition on the first mining Thursday of the year, organized by the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP).
Controls already wait for her
On the other hand, the former Contralor of the Republic also indicated that, in 2024 of the S/48 billion in public investment works, the Comptroller carried out a concurrent control to only S/8 billion in works.
“Control will always be selective. No one has the ability to see everything, ”he said.
Shack stressed that more than 7,000 approved and active investments, with updated cost of S/122.5 billion, without financial execution, have more than 5 years in that situation since they were declared viable.
The economist added that the third part of the active investments (69,969) that are approved, with financial execution and that have amounts less than the S/ 10 million, have more than 10 years executing since they were declared viable or approved.
Corruption
Shack added that corruption and functional inconduct caused a damage to S/24,268 billion to the Peruvian State in 2023, that is, 12.7% in the management of the public funds of the general government.
Of that amount, S/11,992 million (49%) correspond to the National Government, S/7,615 million (31%) to regional governments and s/4,660 million (19%) to municipalities.
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