PAN directive endorsed fractional purchases

The members of the board of the National Assistance Program (PAN) may have committed abuse of their duties by approving contracts insistence on the Ceiling of Hope program.

This was considered  by the ex comptroller of the Republic Alvin Weeden, speaking at the Sunday Open Debate program.

Weeden's comments came in response to statements that give the Minister of the Presidency, Alvaro Aleman, who acknowledged that the board approved PAN insistence on at least two contracts for Ceilings of Hope in 2015 under the guise of "global approvals contracts”,

Aleman explained that these purchases were in the months of March and May 2015, contradicting the arguments that has been giving the Housing Minister Mario Etchelecu, who said there shopping for Ceilings of Hope  were made through the PAN for 2015.

However, what minister Aleman tried to argue was that the board of PAN applied "global approvals of contracts" insistence, after the Comptroller General of the Republic, Federico Humbert, reject these contracts because he found signs of division matter in these purchases.

Justification

Aleman, at a time of the interview, tried to argue that fractional purchases made by officials of this government through the PAN are legally accepted.

First because, in his view, public procurement law does not prohibit the division of matter in the PAN. "The concept of subdivision is provided in the law of public procurement and the PAN was not subject to public procurement law, then, legally, do not understand how they talk about fractionation", he said.

Meanwhile, Weeden denied the argument of German minister, who claims that there was no division, as the PAN (now DAS) was not subject to public procurement law.

"That is false. Indeed there was split, and gave himself for payments and purchase orders do not reach $ 300,000 and evade the approval of the board", said Weeden.

In this connection, the lawyer also said that the Minister of the Presidency "is very skillful" citing the public procurement law. "But here we are also talking about the executive order governing the PAN, which also allowed the illegal subdivision of matter that they did" reminded Weeden.

The second argument of Aleman is that there was bad faith when shopping officials separately because, in his view, Ceilings of Hope is a project in which the works have been done separately.

"What happened in Ceilings of Hope was that the purchases were made for projects and were buying the machinery while projects were emerging," he said

Criticims

German controversial statements also provoked reactions from all political sectors and civil society.

Because they arise at a time when these independent groups demanded the dismissal of officials linked to the investigation announced by the Attorney General's Office.

Aleman publications described in the media orchestrated by "thugs" (murderers for hire).

One of those who was not silent to these comments was excontralor Weeden, who judged "out of place" the comments of Aleman.

"It is possible that the Minister of the Presidency and refers to people who make objective criticism or comments in environments where there is debate that the procedure used was not correct", Weeden said.

Political analyst Jose Blandon Castillo also addressed these comments and the minister Aleman went as follows: "Sorry to public opinion" by these comments that, in his view, do nothing to help the Government; on the contrary, "they put more fire into a crisis developing," he said.

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Directora de la Antai: compras fraccionadas son causal de destitución

Las compras fraccionadas constituyen una falta grave que es causal de destitución del funcionario que la comete.

Así lo señaló recientemente Angélica Maytín, directora de la Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (Antai).

Las declaraciones de Maytín se dieron tras el reciente escándalo sobre el hallazgo de compras fraccionadas en el PAN en esta administración. La funcionaria dijo que el fraccionamiento de compras se detectó en una auditoría preliminar, sin embargo, debe ser corroborado con el informe de Contraloría que ella ha solicitado al contralor Federico Humbert. Dijo que de confirmarse el hecho, se debe ordenar la destitución.

Justicia selectiva en el proceso del PAN-Miviot, denuncian juristas

Justicia selectiva, así califican abogados litigantes la forma como el Ministerio Público ha venido manejando el expediente sobre las posibles compras fraccionadas en el PAN-Miviot para el programa Techos de Esperanza.

“El hecho de que la procuradora Kenia Porcell haya evadido a los medios de comunicación en la más reciente exposición pública demuestra que hay un Ministerio Público entregado al Órgano Ejecutivo”, señaló el abogado Roniel Ortiz.

El jurista indicó que esta es una demostración de justicia selectiva, en la que hay un hermetismo con este expediente que, al final, se va a concluir con un sobreseimiento.

“No podemos vivir en un país donde por el mismo caso, para unos es delito y para otros no”, explicó.

Estos argumentos surgen debido a la situación de que hay exfuncionarios detenidos por haber cometido los mismos actos o por hechos menos comprometedores.

Quien se une a las voces contra la forma selectiva como se están manejando estos expedientes es el abogado Neftalí Jaén.

Subrayó que un ejemplo fue el caso de la compra de granos a través del PAN durante la administración pasada.

Dijo que el Ministerio Público hizo una investigación de oficio con la simple declaración de un funcionario de jerarquía, mientras que para abrir un expediente en el caso del PAN-Miviot se tuvo que esperar casi un año de publicaciones.

Ambos juristas pronostican que este caso va a terminar con un sobreseimiento para ambos funcionarios.

Una fuente del Ministerio Público dijo que el caso se encuentra en la espera del informe de la Contraloría para determinar si existen méritos para iniciar una investigación.

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