Transport and Communications Minister Juan Barranzuela said this Wednesday that there are still some 45 officials resigned from the institutionbecause they did not qualify for the positions they held in the sector.
“We have the results of internal investigations. We have worked through everything from the archives, and we have a list with the number of officials against whom administrative cases have been initiated, some of which have already been convicted by the Prosecutor General’s Office. We have about 45 officials. that we have withdrawn and there are much more of them than they are going to leave, but we cannot remove them because we do not have a replacement and we have problems with their delivery. However, they are being released from the functions that they traditionally performed, “the minister said in the program Everything is known News RPP.
John Barranzuela He said he was coordinating with Controller analyze figures on the total amount of damage caused to the transport sector. However, he did not admit that the leadership of his predecessor John Silva in the Ministry of Transport and Communications was corrupt.
“I don’t want to individualize, because it’s not from now on. That is why we are acting, I called the prosecutor’s office, the Prosecutor General’s office and the Accounts Chamber to start interfering,” the head of the military-technical cooperation said. .
On the other hand, Barranzuela named an approximate amount of what the paralyzed work in our country costs due to problems with corruption.
“Approximately 7,100 million salts in paralyzed jobs, appeals, in arbitrations, abandoned, in legal problems that have accumulated over many years and which no government wanted to solve. This situation allows us to determine that 1,600 million correspond to the work performed by consortiums in which Chinese companies are the majority shareholders,” he said.
Controller: transport will suffer losses of more than S/3000 million
The Comptroller General of the Republic indicated that, according to the CGR Corruption Index 2021, there would have been an economic loss of over S$3,729 million in the transport and communications sector. In addition, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC), as the governing body, has taken no further action in this regard, as it is responsible for ensuring the proper use of public goods and resources for the said sector.
Overall, the 2021 national economic impact estimate, according to the CGR Corruption Index, is estimated at over S$24 billion. In the specific case of the transport and communications sector, the estimated economic damage is in excess of SGD 3,729 million and includes not only the ministry but 13 other entities.
These amounts were calculated using the CGR Corruption Index for the indicated years, based on a methodology that allows analyzing and assessing the economic damage from the impact of corruption and misconduct.
Source: RPP
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