Zulema Sucre scandal causes her resigns

Zulema Sucre, accused of ordering escorts to walk her pet, resigned yesterday from her position as Deputy Minister of Social Development (Mides).

In a brief statement issued by the Presidency, is based Sucre's resignation is given "so that it can exercise broad, responsible and transparent way my self-defense before the competent authorities."

Sucre is investigated by the Public Ministry, after the anti-corruption czar, Angelica Maytín, denounced by the alleged commission of crimes against public administration, in its form of embezzlement of use.

This case started in the Authority Transparency and Access to Information -Antai-, which came instance to the escorts for filing the complaint.

Since this scandal broke, the deputy minister was away from her duties, so it was incurring a lack Administrative Code, to receive a salary without labor, according to legal experts consulted.

Although the president asked her to put his resignation to Monday last week, Varela, in interviews with the media, defended his subordinate, indicating that it was his word against the escorts who accused.

The president asked why the complaint of the ex official bodyguards was then submitted more than two months after being dismissed.

Yesterday, one of the bodyguards who protected the deputy minister claimed that not only walk Gucci was one of the abuses of Sucre to them.

They should also take their daughters to school and look after them until dawn on weekends.

"The dog inn became an assignment because the day we did not, we were scolded as if we had made the biggest mistake in the world," said the citizen, named Marino Zuniga.

In her defense, the ex official declared last week, never forced security officials to walk her dog and attributed this claim to a plot against him in a case of land in the district of Chame.

In that interview, Sucre acknowledged that since the fact was revealed had not gone to her office so that investigations be conducted.

This is the second lowest in the cabinet of President Juan Carlos Varela, after last December his resignation the former Minister of Trade and Industry Meliton Arrocha, who decided to take his seat as a Member of the Assembly by 8-8 circuit, cattle in the elections of May 2014.

Various sectors of the country have asked the president to make changes to his cabinet, by questioning the slow actions of management and low approval ratings that reflect the surveys.

 

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Datos

• Profesión

• Zulema Sucre es cirujana dental y ocupaba el viceministerio de Desarrollo Social desde julio de 2014.

• Principal

• Fue viceministra de Alcibiades Vásquez, uno de los ministros mejor evaluados en la actual administración gubernamental.

• Sistema

• Al presentar su renuncia, la investigación que se desarrolla en su contra en el Ministerio Público se realizará bajo el sistema inquisitivo, que está vigente hasta septiembre.