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Excess, duplicity of collections and values technically distant from the industry. These are some of the discrepancies that Codelco detected in the contract for the transport of ore and land that it had made with the Santa Elvira company, belonging to the Prado group, in the Salvador Division, and for which it had requested explanations to the contractor yesterday. a letter in which he also details the amounts involved.
This was indicated by sources of the cuprera, who also indicated that the state had granted Santa Elvira a ten-day deadline to meet the demand, as part of the construction of the road. which could be developed from the antecedents detected during an internal audit, to the extent that there is a strong possibility of continuation of the problem.
"We have detected discrepancies on the basis of available information, which results in excessive recoveries, duplication of the same concept, weaknesses in safeguards, charges that appear outside the substance of the contract, payments based on technical values only in compliance with industry standards and work not respecting an order of the division of El Salvador ", indicates the letter signed by the management of the division.
Thus, the sources stated that Although the contract with Santa Elvira began in 2012 and ended early this year, the notion of anomaly dates back to 2014, year in which a change was fixed and variable payments. In this sense, they specified that the extra billing would be between 20% and 25%.
The fact detected through the internal audit conducted between the end of 2017 and the beginning of this year led to the dismissal of five leaders. among whom were the Director General and the Mineral Resources Manager.
Moreover, this implied that at the meeting of January 25 of this year, and as part of a tendering process of the same contract, the Board of Directors of the Board of State Secretary Oscar Landerretche, at the time, decided to validate the proposal of the Audit Committee (CACE) not to open the offer of Santa Elvira not to give confidence on the administrative level .
Inquiry Committee
Yesterday was approved in the House. Deputies an investigating commission – at the request of Daniella Cicardini MP- following the denunciation of a series of irregularities in the new licensing process of the circulation service of mining and plant material that was awarded to the Trepsa Cerro Alto consortium and the award would have been made at a higher price than that paid in Santa Elvira.
Despite this, Codelco sources have stated that the monthly billing of the contract with Santa Elvira was approximately between 6 and 7 million USD. Although the amount awarded to Trepsa is between 4 and 4.5 million US dollars.
However, considering the unit value, the last contract would cost about 30% more, but because of an error in the mining plan, which had already been corrected by sending equipment to other operations in the north. Thus, when both contracts are approved, the cost difference will be about 5%.
They also point out that the 160 companies operating in the country were invited to bid, of which seven participated, among which: they Santa Elvira, signature that by the described situation is suspended by the State to participate in of new tendering procedures up to the investigations developed by Codelco and Cochilco.
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