The Government reacts, defends Arce and there is doubt about Colodro’s ‘suicide’

The Vice Minister of Pensions, Iveth Espinoza, He left yesterday to defend the management of President Luis Arce before the irregularities that were being committed in the Fassil bank for four years and that led to his intervention.

his was the first voice of the Executive Body that expressed this support after the death of the auditor Carlos Alberto Colodro, happened on Saturday. At this time, the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, refrained from expressing criteria about the bank and concentrated on the investigation of the fact.

The minister included suicide as a possible cause of Colodro’s death, but the version was dismissed, especially by the faction of MAS.

In contact with journalists, Espinoza recalled that between 2018 and 2019 she was director of the Financial System Authority (ASFI). “In that time, irregularities have been seen in the growth of this entity (Fassil). He was opening agencies (in a way) too fast and his operations were growing a lot. There, our president (Luis Arce) -when he was a minister- made his concern knownin meetings that we had with the entities under custody, that this growth, those profits that the bank presented were as a screen for the operations that are carried out in the other companies that belonged to the group (which controlled the Fassil bank) ”.

Espinoza is part of the group of professionals that Arce surrounded himself with since the MAS’s first term. He said yesterday that Arce, being a minister and she the director of ASFI, entrusted her with the task of “making a much more detailed review of those operations.”. That’s why,
He continued, “when the capital increase authorization was requested, ASFI was denied that authorization. It was in 2019. With that they could leverage more resources and show solvency to attract deposits, ”explained Espinoza, shortly before pointing out that it was in the transitional government of Jeanine Áñez that these resources were authorized to the Fassil bank.

“That is why this very accelerated growth was achieved, without risk management.”
“Lucho Arce said: ‘I knew in 2018 or 2019, they never told me’. Returning from Argentina (2020), I found out about a bank called Fassil. Any private sector has the right to organize, but if the brother president already knew and there were irregularities, that moment was to stop so that there are no such acts of extortion, very serious,” former president Evo Morales said over the weekend, recalling that the government It’s already two years old.

Yesterday, the also leader of the MAS rejected the hypothesis of suicide that Minister Del Castillo slipped from Sunday when he spoke of the existence of a “presumably posthumous” letter written by Colodro before his death.

Yesterday, Evo affirmed that “the internal right” (alluding to arcism) tries to stain him with the scandal that left the case of the financial institution, “to justify some plan that would be brewing.” Thus, he argued that the death of the controller Colodro should not be investigated as an isolated event, because there are other similar and recent cases.

Later, congressman Jorge Saucedo, from the opposition alliance Creemos, filed a complaint against the current director of ASFI, Reynaldo Yujra, for breach of duty. “This is because he did not promote timely actions and allowed what was happening in the Fassil bank to affect many citizens,” he said in time to deliver the lawsuit to the Santa Cruz Prosecutor’s Office.

Deputy Luisa Nayar, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) wondered why did it take so long in actual. “Are they hiding something?”