A report prepared by the Nation’s Internal Audit noted several irregularities in two areas of AFE.
The State Railway Administration (AFE) admitted not knowing how many estate has, after a report prepared by the Internal Audit of the Nationwhere irregularities were found in two areas of the autonomous entity, the management of estate and surveillance services.
The vice president of AFE, Gustavo Ostaassured Telemundo this Thursday that the state company “has a large amount of estate throughout the country, who do not know how many there are”, and that many of them are “illegitimately occupied” and others “legitimately occupied with very low rents that have not been collected and have not been paid for years.”
According to Osta, “The previous directors did not initiate any type of action to recover those payments,” so these “actions or omissions” caused “damage to the State,” in an action that he understands as “intentional.”
“The other area is in surveillance services, AFE in particular is in custody services to take care of an asset that does not know its value, but does know that it is worth less and less, according to the Court of Accounts“said Osta.
AFE spent 25 million dollars in 15 years to guard its properties
The hierarch of AFE He specified that in 2004, 170,000 dollars were spent per year, but that in 2017 and 2018, between 2.3 to 2.4 million dollars were spent. “It’s a lot of money, 25 million dollars in 15 years, when in that period not a single locomotive was purchased,” he shot. Osta.
The Internal Audit of the Nation He highlighted that there was a significant increase in surveillance spending, and that the bidding procedures were plagued by irregularities, without there being a control system within the state company itself to corroborate the provision of services in different parts of the country.
“In our opinion it is serious enough to generate corrective (internal) instances, and a new tender that causes expenses to go down, as is already happening, and in turn, carry out the criminal instances to which we are obliged,” concluded the vice president of AFE.
Source: Ambito
