Controller detects more than $ 1 billion spent badly: funds were used to repair local roads | National

More than billion badly spent detected by the controller of the Department of Regional Roads (DRV) of La Araucanía, amount intended for the repair of local roads.

According to La Tercera, resources should be used to repair roads giving access to local communities, but they were used on other roads.

In addition, failures were detected in the probity which includes a contract with a company where Luis Roa works, brother-in-law of the public works outlet of the factory.

Events took place between January 2016 and 2017, during which the RVD of the region developed maintenance work on 50.4 km of roads in the region, as part of a program dedicated to the conservation of roads for indigenous communities.

However, according to the Regional Controller, it was found that some of the resources were used irregularly.

In fact, the media pointed out that the audit report revealed that $ 1,027,318,120 was used on roads located outside the territories of Aboriginal peoples.

In concluding that this situation was due to "the lack of verification of the quality of native lands on the places where the roads were."

The controller's body found that in addition to the amount being objected to, the entity had used $ 723,542,123 in works contracts that ] "They have not been executed, they have been partially executed, or in some cases where it is impossible to determine their degree of advancement, as there is no documentation proving the existence. actual accomplishment of the work. "

Defects of Probity [19659010] Faced with these irregularities, the lack of integrity revealed by the audit of the controller, which includes a contract with a company in which Luis Roa works, brother-in-law former works of the public works factory [1 9459004] who "did not abstain from signing a free resolution awarding the contract to the contractor, Justo Schweitzer, where his brother-in-law worked, in breach of the principle of administrative integrity. "

The entity pointed out that the tax inspector, Carla Sierra, "proceeded to the inspection of contracts awarded to the construction company IM Ltda, where worked his brother. "

The controller will therefore take a series of measures for the reparo of more than a billion pesos. misused and refund or credit of payment amounts of work.

Similarly, will open an administrative summary to "determine the possible liabilities of officials in irregularities related to unpaid insurance, insurance paid for amounts less than those required, unsecured guarantees, guarantees entered after the deadline and ballot s with a validity less than required ", specifies the entity in La Tercera.