Gustavo Adolfo Soto Osorio, former accountant of the previous mayor of Chinautla Arnoldo Medrano, pleaded responsible this Tuesday, June 11, to having facilitated the theft of Q21.8 million from the Municipal Worker Advantages Plan, the place he was additionally an auditor, contributions coming from a minimum of a minimum of three municipalities within the southwest of the nation, judicial sources reported.
Soto accepted the process of acceptance of fees and pleaded responsible to embezzlement by theft and fraud.
He was convicted of the crimes of fraud by accounting data and embezzlement by theft. He acquired a sentence of seven years in jail.
Based on the Public Ministry (MP), the stolen cash got here from the Municipal Worker Profit Plan of the communes of Cuyotenango, Suchitepéquez; San Sebastián Retalhuleu and the top of Retalhuleu.
Based on the prosecutor answerable for the method, there are 146 checks that complete the quantity defrauded.
Based on the investigations, a regional delegate of the Advantages Plan arrived on the municipalities to obtain non-negotiable checks, which had been connected to the payrolls of municipal staff.
It particulars that the delegate arrived on the Nationwide Mortgage Credit score (CHN) and paid a recipient to money the test although it was non-negotiable and when it was offered to the Treasury of the Municipal Worker Profit Plan he delivered a small sum of money. in money and stored the remainder.
The MP particulars that the cash was distributed amongst different individuals concerned, so in July the trial will start towards 11 different individuals concerned.
Soto labored as an inside auditor of the Municipal Worker Advantages Plan and in his studies he didn’t declare any flaws or imbalances in knowledge. He had a short trial for accepting the costs.
Gustavo Adolfo Soto Osorio pleaded responsible to facilitating the theft of Q21.8 million from the Municipal Worker Profit Plan in 2016.
He was sentenced to 9 years in jail and by submitting to the particular process for accepting fees the sentence is 7 years. pic.twitter.com/VTYUzQP1mV
— Elmer Vargas (@evargas_gtv) June 11, 2024
One other case
In April 2018, the MP requested that 19 individuals, together with the previous mayor of Chinautla, Arnoldo Medrano, be despatched to trial for the embezzlement of a minimum of Q25 million in a case often called “The municipality of Chinautla: a household enterprise”, through which Soto can also be concerned.
The investigation established that throughout the municipal interval from 2008 to 2012, the Municipal Council was partly made up of the Medrano-Osorio household, who instantly had 4 of the seven members, plus the mayor who was Arnoldo Medrano, thus changing into the bulk. to make selections and approve tasks inside the Council.
That is how they operated
The Chinautla Council awarded the works to corporations that had ties to the then mayor Medrano.
The businesses had been just lately created, they didn’t also have a yr from their incorporation to the signing of the contracts. The belief known as Fideichinautla was created to handle the assets, however Medrano used it to pay for public works awarded fraudulently.
Thus, by a co-optation scheme of the municipality of Chinautla, the mayor and his councilors illicitly related in order that public works contracts had been assigned to the businesses of the prison group, as a way to profit from public funds.
To applicable municipal assets, they created corporations between 2008 and 2010 that might be a part of the community to seize municipal contracts.
The contracted corporations had been: Grupo Dinámica SA, Constructora Aguirre Hermanos SA, Servicios Bauca SA, Constructora Lagunilla SA, Multitel SA, Santa Cruz Construcciones SA, Constructora Escala SA, Constructora Equite SA, Muralles Pérez Construcciones SA, Chomo SA and Escalante Vásquez Construcciones SA
It was reported that six of those corporations had been created in a interval of 15 days – from October 13 to 30, 2008 -; Moreover, all of them had Soto Osorio as their accountant, who in flip was employed as an inside auditor within the Chinautla commune.
To generate assets, they applied tasks that consisted of minimal housing, avenue paving and development of a sewage system, amongst others. The investigation was carried out on seven tasks, which had been contracted in an anomalous method. The quantity of the seven contracts quantities to Q25 million.
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