Comptroller General of the Republic, Elvis Amoroso, reported on Thursday through an official pronouncement that citizens Luisa Marvelia Ortega Díaz, Germán Darío Ferrer, Tomás Ignacio Guanipa Villalobos, Antonio José Ledezma Díaz and Julio Andrés Borges Junyent have been disqualified for the exercise of any public office for the maximum period foreseen in the Decree with Rank, Value and Force of Law Against Corruption.
Amoroso explained during this press conference that the aforementioned citizens are subject to the patrimony verification procedure, and that in the review of the minutes that make up the administrative files, the concealment or falsification of information was detected in the presentation of the affidavits of patrimony analyzed, because they omitted, overestimated and underestimated financial instruments.
In this regard, the head of the Maximum Fiscal Control Body informed that the citizenship audit procedure was also initiated for citizens Carlos José Balza Guanipa, David Smolansky Urosa, Elio Ramón Tortolero Varela, Luis Augusto Pacheco Rodríguez, María Elizabeth Lizardo de Jiménez, José Ignacio Hernández González, Jon Mirena Bilbao Baroja, Enrique Simón Torres Galavis, Rogelio Rafael Lozada Briceño, Carmen Elisa Hernández Rodríguez de Castro, José Alberto de Antonio Cabré, Mireya Ripanti de Amaya, Gabriela del Valle Rondón Arellano and José Manuel Olivares Marquina; These last two citizens «serve as deputies of the National Assembly in contempt and are allegedly immersed in acts of corruption», said Amoroso.
The Comptroller recalled that Luis Augusto Pacheco Rodríguez, María Elizabeth Lizardo de Jiménez, Jon Mirena Bilbao Baroja, Enrique Simón Torres Galavis, Rogelio Rafael Lozada Briceño, Carmen Elisa Hernández Rodríguez de Castro, José Alberto de Antonio Cabré and Mireya Ripanti de Amaya are disabled for 15 years for the exercise of public functions since June 25, 2015.
The Comptroller explained that the aforementioned persons and who were already sanctioned for other crimes in the past were now, during 2019, appointed by the usurper and false president Juan Guaidó to illegally occupy CITGO, ad hoc Administrative Board, (PDVSA) PETROQUÍMICA DE VENEZUELA, SA and MONÓMEROS COLOMBO VENEZOLANOS, SA
«I order the Directorate of Affidavits of Patrimony of the General Directorate of Special Procedures to continue with the procedure of patrimonial verification and to process the fine procedure provided for in article 35 of the Law Against Corruption», he said during the press conference.
The Comptroller General of the Republic urged the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of People’s Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace and SUDEBAN to continue with the investigations and apply the measures agreed in judgments of the constitutional court of the Supreme Court, as a ban on leaving the country, prohibition of transferring and encumbering assets, and blocking and immobilization of bank accounts of those who were designated by Guaidó.
“It is the duty of all the institutions of the Venezuelan State to develop a frontal battle against the various forms of corruption, strengthening the institutions of the State, promoting the leading participation of the People’s Power, promoting transparency and automation of public management, as well as the mechanisms criminal, administrative, civil and disciplinary sanctions against injuries or improper handling of public funds», he said during the pronouncement.
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