Madrid/The state press has given broad coverage to the report commissioned by the authorities to detect possible irregularities and corruption cases in state and private companies. The result has been expected, more than 3,000 “incidents” that have given rise to more than 1,000 sanctions, and the matter promises to give more of itself.
“Due to the seriousness of the matters detected, complaints were made for crimes of embezzlement, abuse in the exercise of the position and diversion of resources,” says the report, in which “other control actions” are more specialized, with intervention of inspections at a higher level, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Comptroller. In particular, the work will focus on Mayabeque, Havana, Matanzas, Sancti Spíritus, Villa Clara, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Holguín, Granma, Guantanamo and the special municipality Isla de la Juventud.
It seems that few provinces are fought, but not precisely because of the absence of merits. This Tuesday, several official profiles released on Facebook the news, confirmed by the Police, the arrest of the administrator and a worker of an agricultural market in Pinar del Río, one of those who are not in the sight. According to what has transcended, the two arrested held “large volumes of products such as rice and eggs” to resell in private kiosks.
The reactions are almost unanimous: the problem is present throughout the country, they point to countless users who claim reviews in provinces throughout the island
They have not transcended the names of the accused of diversion of resources for illegal resale, but the place of the facts, which would be the state market of the cast women, known as “El Pepino”. The inspection was able to recover the products, which are already available to the population.
The reactions are almost unanimous: the problem is present throughout the country, they point out countless users who claim reviews in provinces throughout the island. Artemis, Havana, Bayamo … The alert is repeated by countless territories. “Good work, but I suggest that you do it in the country completely and fundamentally in the municipalities, when you start making surprise visits, systematicity in control and control, so that they see how many problems they will find that they harm the people,” summarizes a commentator.
Corruption, transversal throughout the island, is not the only problem that, according to the Government’s report, afflicts officials and other cadres. It highlights an observation that has been denounced recurrently: “Likewise, it deepened the familiarity relations between non -state service providers with cadres that decide in the approval of the state entities of contracts and services.” The mention shows that the authorities are very aware that the possibilities of prospering are greater if you have contacts in the state sector and within the party.
Among the incidents linked to hiring, many demonstrate if not bad faith, ignorance of the norm. The lack of documentation is frequent, the absence of proof of payment, the impossibility of verifying the final destination of the acquisitions, the charges without formalized the contract or the lack of analysis both a priori and after the purchases.
It also abounds the lack of registration of what is in the stores or the violation of some regulations that could better guarantee participation and transparency. In addition, there is a delay in countless processes, which do not help to expedite bureaucracy, which degenerates into inefficiency and inefficiency. Accountability systems are also in the pillory, since they are “superficial”, it determines the evaluation.
The sectors that accumulate the most irregularities within the budgeted sector are “the assurance and support units of the Municipal Administration Councils in health, education, sports and culture entities”, while in business it occurs in trade, agriculture and transport entities.
At the end of August, the state press of Sancti Spíritus revealed that five agricultural supplies company were sentenced to prison sentences of up to 20 years
At the end of Augustthe state press of Sancti Spíritus revealed that five managers of the agricultural supply company were sentenced to prison sentences of up to 20 years for “economic crimes” that caused losses worth 100 million pesos. According to the information, the managers did not fulfill their obligation to preserve the products and, aware that the fridge of the meat did not cool enough, they did not put the means to solve it.
To this was added the inability of the managers to recover an acquired debt on apropist – when the country – with the entity, which left more than 94 million pesos of deficit only with this supplier.
The Humberto López program, let’s talk Cuba, offered a story in that most expanded occasion on other similar crimes, including a former provincial director of Finance and Pinar del Río prices, who made payment orders without the approval of the Provincial Council, the competent collegiate body. For these events he faced 15 years in prison.
There was also talk of a millionaire fraud with coal in Artemisa, in which a proportion and managers of the state -owned Citee Ceiba diverted more than 28 million pesos through a false export contract.
