The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) suspended the Minister of Finance, Rocío Aguilar, for a month without pay, at the end of the investigation of the administrative body that analyzed the payment of State debt without the budgetary approval of the Legislative Assembly, popularly known as a fiscal gap.
The same administrative resolution reaches the former Minister of Finance and former Vice President Helio Fallas, who may not hold public office for the next four years. The former director of Public Credit and current director of the Bank of Costa Rica Julio Espinoza, the director of National Treasury, Marta Cubillo, and the current director of Public Credit, Melvin Quirós, were also sanctioned. In the last three cases the sanctions established by the comptroller entity are unknown.
The officials were notified on Tuesday afternoon by the Comptroller, as confirmed by a confidential source to CRHoy.com and have until next Friday to appeal the resolution. Said resolution could escalate to the Contentious Administrative Court in case the parties sue the State.