Marco Vicente Redondo, a member of the Citizen Action Party (PAC), attacked allegations of corruption by social-Christian and liberationist lawmakers, following the cases of three vice-ministers of the government, two of whom acknowledged an extra payment on their salary and a third who insists that she is in fact entitled to the payment.
Redondo says that these facts cannot be classified as corruption, because unlike the PUSC and PLN, the PAC has acted and has amended the cases.
The legislator issued a list of four officials who had received additional payments since 1998.
I requested information from the Presidential House about cases that occurred in the past, which represent the root of human resources departments’ interpretation and the mistakes that have been made in the past. But now that the cases are linked to the PAC they are talking about corruption, when it has been a habit,”
explained Redondo.
In a letter to President Solís, Redondo requested an investigation in human resources offices and, in case of verified irregularities, the Ministry of Finance should initiate proceedings to return the money.
Corruption would be to find an error and not to amend it. This government has done something to stop those situations, because the deputy ministers have already started the process to return the money, but no one has demanded a single penny from previous cases,”
insisted the legislator.
Following the cases of the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Ana Gabriel Zúñiga, Deputy Minister of Housing, Ana Cristina Trejos, and Governor Carmen Muñoz, opposition legislators strongly attacked the government, alleging lack of transparency and corruption.