The Flores Prosecutor’s Office investigates a lack of $ 7,614,639 in the coffers of the Intendancy of that departmentfor which the departmental government accuses an official from the Treasury area of divert those state funds to your personal accountas reported to The Observer the prosecutor in charge of the case, Alicia Abreu.
The Departmental Bureau of the Broad Front in Flores denounced this Thursday the “missing millionaire”and asked for a external audit to the Court of Auditors to clarify the facts, in a statement published this Thursday.
The Frente Amplio mayors requested the mayor, Fernando Echeverría“proceed with the greatest transparency to clarify the fact and claim political responsibility.”
The fact was made public in early June, when Echeverría reported the situation in an interview with Underlined. On the 6th of that month, Echeverría appeared before the Departmental Board and explained that the Intendancy had found the missing of almost $ 8 million after seeing a difference between the payments that the commune had to the workers and the payments that it was going to make to personal income taxsaid to The Observer the mayor of the Front Amplio Fernando Olivera.
The investigation led to an official from the Treasury area, who since October 2021 “modified payroll” of a salary settlement program with which that Municipality works, and transferred the difference in money “to his personal account”Olivera detailed. “At first they were small sums, then he abused,” she added.
In the first instance, the authorities audited the programbut they found no errors, so they began an internal investigation into the actions of the responsible officials, in which they discovered the transfers made by the indicated official, which He was summarily and is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Abreu explained that the case was denounced by the Intendancy of Flores as a “scam”and is now in the stage of research. Despite the fact that the departmental government marked only this official as responsible, the prosecutor also studies if there were no more participants in the case.
“The maneuver that allowed the fraud demonstrates the vulnerability and fragility of the system, the failure of controls, the overconfidence in the delegation of tasksthat fall on the figure of the primary computer of the expense that is the Intendantin addition to being the political person in charge of municipal management,” remarked the Frente Amplio table.
Intendancy of Flowers
Fernando Echeverría, mayor of Flores
Olivera highlighted that there was a “trust abuse” with the Intendancy official, whom “He was given all the keys to the salary settlement money.”
From the Table they consulted the Intendancy of Flowers if the lack will affect “investments, works, salaries or the fiscal deficit will grow”because the missing is important “in a budget as modest as the Departmental.”
