Mexico Metropolis. In response to criticism from legislators for his efficiency on the head of the Superior Audit Workplace of the Federation (ASF), the pinnacle of the group, David Colmenares Páramo, asserted this Friday that in his administration “what’s being practiced is neutral oversight.”
When delivering to the Surveillance Fee of the Chamber of Deputies the primary of three partial experiences on the audit of the Public Account 2023, equivalent to the fifth 12 months of the federal government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Colmenares assured that the criticism of his work has motivations insurance policies.
The report consists of 68 of the two,258 audits with which the 2023 Public Account shall be reviewed. It signifies that up to now a pattern of three.6 billion pesos has been audited and that attainable irregularities had been noticed for 606 million 632 thousand pesos, of which that 42 million 996 thousand pesos have already been resolved and 563 million 636 thousand pesos are pending clarification. The 2 remaining experiences shall be offered in October and February.
“The problem is that every time there are modifications in authorities, makes an attempt have typically been made to politicize our work, to make use of it as a subject for political propaganda, and in the long run the outcomes will stay,” stated Colmenares, who didn’t seem in individual earlier than the legislators, however slightly offered his report nearly, by settlement of the fee.
PAN deputy María Elena Pérez-Jaén criticized Colmenares for not personally attending the Chamber of Deputies and for what she described as “horrible administration” within the ASF.
“He has proven a complete lack of respect and dedication to the authorized obligations of the ASF, repeatedly failing to current the audit experiences to the Chamber of Deputies, evading the Oversight Committee,” stated the legislator. “This disregard for compliance with established rules additional undermines confidence within the ASF,” she declared and stated that the Audit Workplace “has been hijacked below the poor administration of Colmenares.”
René Figueroa, additionally from the PAN, accused Colmenares of getting “allowed the withdrawal” of the ASF and of getting dismissed the auditors Muna Dora Buchahin – former head of the Basic Directorate of Forensic Audit of the group and who found the plot of the grasp rip-off and was later faraway from her place in Could 2018 – and Agustín Caso Raphael, dismissed final April, a month after he acknowledged earlier than deputies that the ASF lowered the analysis of the tutorial coverage from the 2022 Public Account. Within the 2019 Public Account, Caso Raphael calculated the price of the cancellation of the airport in Texcoco at 331 billion pesos, however within the face of criticism from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the audit affirmed that the auditor made a mistake and eliminated him.
Morena deputy Inés Parra Juárez criticized that the supply of the report was an act “extraordinarily restricted to the free participation of legislators.”
For his half, on behalf of Morena, deputy Daniel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, acknowledged the work of Colmenares and his crew. He stated that those that are with the López Obrador authorities “are the primary to make sure that the cash is used properly and that if there are flaws, let the ASF level them out to right them.” He added that “the inspection is to not create scandals, nor lynchings, nor to satiate the political prominence of any political pressure.”
By highlighting that the outcomes offered on this report usually are not definitive since at the moment begins the deadline for the audited entities to current the corresponding clarifications, Colmenares emphasised that the ASF continues the evaluation of the 2023 Public Account.
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– 2024-06-29 23:25:47
