The Comptroller Normal’s Workplace (CGC) ordered a particular audit within the Housing Fund belief (Fopavi) to guage compliance with contracts in housing tasks, since up to now there have been 26 complaints towards former administrators and corporations, reported this Friday, March 31. Could official sources.
The inspections can be carried out inside a interval of 30 days, in keeping with Ruth Barrios, director of Belief Audit on the CGC.
“It’s a compliance audit with a restricted safety stage, during which totally different tasks all through the republic can be verified,” mentioned Barrios, who added that the process arose because of the truth that within the 2023 price range audit, the Belief Directorate detected that there are properties which are reported as accomplished, however these usually are not discovered, so “a brand new appointment arises to confirm the remainder of the tasks for these properties.”
“The report that was simply offered to Congress final week reveals a results of 26 complaints by the Belief Audit Directorate, to the Housing Funding Fund, for properties that haven’t been constructed,” mentioned Barrios.
He added that tasks for 2023 and 2022 can be verified.
Barrios mentioned that these accused embrace a former vice minister and a director of Fopavi, however didn’t provide particulars of who they’re.
As well as, he identified that hundreds of individuals have been scammed and that the Public Ministry can be in control of the investigation.
ghost workplace
An workplace operated throughout the Fopavi amenities that was devoted to defrauding households who have been in search of a subsidy to construct a home. The “processor” was not listed as an worker of the establishment, however he had a bodily house during which he did his enterprise.
The irregular actions of this workplace are inverse to the mission that this company of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) presents on its web site: “Contribute and assure Guatemalan households in circumstances of poverty and excessive poverty, entry to an honest, satisfactory and wholesome housing unit, by means of a subsidy.”
The tenant of the ghost workplace was Javier Alejandro Vásquez López, who, in keeping with public data on the Guatecompras portal, was a employee at Fopavi (previously Foguavi) from 2012 to 2016 within the monetary and evaluation space.
Movies from safety cameras to which Noticiero Guatevisión and Prensa Libre had entry present that Vásquez López by no means left the establishment regardless that he didn’t formally work there.
The recordings present Vásquez López on January 26 of this 12 months strolling within the totally different areas of Fopavi, from the Authorized Division to the workplace of the previous director of mentioned entity, Vinicio Pazos.
As noticed within the movies, Vásquez López requested the employees to signal paperwork with a purpose to perform his scams; This model was confirmed by Walter Monroy, new director of Fopavi, who has already filed complaints with the Public Ministry (MP) in regards to the irregular actions discovered.
They delivered Q51 thousand in money
On the highway that results in Masagua, Escuintla, is the Valle de Las Carmelitas housing undertaking, an area the place regarding 400 households stay. Since 2014, they started the subsidy course of which, in keeping with Fopavi rules, generally is a most contribution of Q35 thousand per family.
In March 2023, the residents of the group went to the Fopavi headquarters in zone 9 of the capital to acquire a response to their procedures and have been assisted by Vásquez who promised to assist them receive the subsidy.
“We have been served by a personality who referred to as himself Gustavo, Gustavo Véliz, however ultimately that was not his actual identify, the true identify was Javier Vásquez. They by no means attended to us exterior the places of work – of Fopavi – every time we arrived on the one-stop store they despatched us to the workplace the place Mr. Gustavo or Javier or no matter his identify was saved,” Mario Ellington, from Guatevisión and Prensa Libre, defined to Noticiero Guatevisión and Prensa Libre. 61 years previous and president of the Cocode del Valle de las Carmelitas.
On Could 9, 2023, members of the Cocode del Valle de las Carmelitas delivered Q51,000 in money to Vásquez López, as a result of he assured them {that a} new socioeconomic examine needed to be paid for. Every household paid Q325. As proof, Vásquez López signed and sealed a sheet detailing the supply of the money that was obtained at Fopavi at 12:14 midday.
This was the fourth time that households in Valle de las Carmelitas paid for a socioeconomic examine, in keeping with Erick Mayorga, developer of the housing undertaking. The final one was paid on December 22, 2019 to the NGO-ADEGUA.
Greater than 2 thousand affected
The director of Fopavi, Walter Monroy, who took workplace on February 16 of this 12 months, defined on April 13 that within the final month they’ve responded to complaints from 15 communities in search of a response in order that their subsidy recordsdata are authorized. He identified that in all instances altered paperwork have been offered and in some there have been cast signatures. The entire variety of affected individuals may exceed 2 thousand households.
“All of them current me paperwork that have been delivered and manipulated by him -Javier Vásquez López-, nevertheless it seems that almost all have alterations in numerous elements of the paperwork. The knowledge now we have within the database doesn’t match what this particular person gave to those beneficiaries,” says the director of the fund.
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