- The rights of thousands of students and researchers are violated.
- The sewer of officials of the general directorate in illicit acts was opened.
- Corruption, harassment and bullying the frequency of officials.
Mexico City, March 27, 2022.- The National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) must respond to a series of criminal and administrative complaints against the violated technological rights of the polytechnic community, as stated by the Mexican Transversal Justice (JTM) collective.
“In addition to the acts of corruption and sexual harassment that have been aired within the general directorate in recent weeks, there is a criminal complaint against the institution, which is directed by Arturo Reyes Sandoval, because it left the rights of thousands vulnerable. of students, academics and employees to the digital connection”, said the lawyer Mauricio Santiago Eder.
The doctor of law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and director of the group’s legal office considered that thousands of researchers have been left vulnerable by having a poor digital telephone service due to lack of maintenance.
The also academic of the highest house of studies explained that there are various criminal complaints filed because in several assigned rulings, where he is accused not only of the demand for cash to approve the services, but also that the IPN officials who do not sign the contracts already approved, leaving the services unfinished and the companies without charging.
“This situation has left defenseless the thousands of IPN students who depend on digital connection services for the development of their internships within higher education laboratories and even postgraduate degrees,” he said.
Dr. Santiago Eder explained that the law requires public officials to do so in a timely manner to consolidate the administrative route, for example, in the public tender (LA-011B00001-E158-2021) regarding a telephone infrastructure maintenance service. digital, which so far the IPN has not paid due to lack of signatures on the contract by officials.
“Academicians and researchers have fallen prey to these corruption actions, which uncover a series of irregularities that have been developed for several decades in the administrative offices, material acquisition offices and those that offer a technical qualification to digital products and services of the IPN.
“A sewer has been uncovered where it is now known that various officials, who report to director Reyes Sandoval, are not only singled out for alleged acts of corruption, but also for sexual and labor harassment and harassment,” explained the litigant.
Santiago Eder explained that the companies Projects and Interdisciplinary Supplies of Mexico City, as well as Banana Technologies Group were the companies awarded as the best administrative, technical and economic proposal, however, they have been affected, since since August of last year They have acted with threats from IPN officials, as well as the liquidity for the payment of their services even when they have finished their work.
He added that the transparency platforms, the IPN-PS-LICI-020-2021 contract appears, which has a “status” of concluded without setbacks and paid, when the companies have not received any payment, for which they now receive guidance from the JTM collective to continue hand in hand with their complaints along with that of the polytechnic students.
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