Emir Olivares and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 20, 2024, p. 3
After the opening of the sewer
that for many years was covered up in the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Infonavit), the federal government will continue to administratively and criminally denounce acts of corruption that are detected in the organization, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
He ruled out that it is a political matter to have exposed the crimes that were committed in past administrations in that institute, which is why he stressed that the reforms to it aim to protect workers’ savings, build housing – particularly social – and make their work transparent. .
In yesterday’s morning conference he referred to the topic again. To express question about whether it is going to tap
To former general directors of Infonavit, the federal president remarked: “it is not a matter if they are going to touch each other. Complaints are filed and whatever is done. It’s just that (they say) ‘this is a political issue’, now they want to make it political. No, it is not political, it is an issue of defense of workers’ savings.
You are naming names, the greatest corruption of what was mentioned occurred in the last period of (Enrique) Peña and others that come from before. But also, a vision of Infonavit to collect, collect and collect from the workers, that is, that they never finish paying their debt, through credit of years and years of payment or evictions, because they could not finish paying the debt. dwelling
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He maintained that the criticisms of the reforms – approved by the Senate last week and which are pending discussion in the Chamber of Deputies – are unfounded.
“Why did the INAI, which they defended so much, never do anything with Infonavit? Or why don’t they say that they did not allow the Superior Audit of the Federation to enter to carry out audits? There are no arguments. Tell me an argument that has been given by the opposition or its business leaders such as the junior (Claudio X. González), that has foundation. It is hatred, criticism… Tremendous!”
He insisted that it is proposed to change the law so that the general director of the institute can have the rectorship of the same – since that is not the case today -, in addition to eliminating two sectoral directorates. that don’t make sense. (And they are) that of business and union representation, and that it continues to be a tripartite body in which everyone decides, the business organizations, the workers and the government.
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The head of the federal Executive highlighted that those who at the time did business with workers’ resources were the ones who have hindered audits and supervision with the argument that, since these are workers’ funds, they are private.
“This investigation and some that already came from the previous administration, and now the one being carried out by Octavio Romero – current general director – will result in continuing to report what is being found and the criminal lawsuits that we have to present.”
He stressed that it is very relevant for citizens to know about these detected irregularities because it represented a private business that occurred in previous federal administrations in which business and worker representations participated
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