José Ignacio Lópezson of Joselo Lopezvice president of PIT-CNTwill be criminally denounced by the Institute for Children and Adolescents of Uruguay (INAU) for “serious irregularities” after detecting that for years he charged improper overtime.
The scandal, unleashed after a publication in the weekly Busqueda, revealed that López had forged the signature of his supervisor to award himself, over four years, some 40 overtime hours per month, which gives a total of 1,920 hours in that time. period.
The son of the vice president of the PIT-CNT He made use of his role as a union representative to avoid recording, on repeated occasions, his income and expenses of the Men’s Short Stay Centerwhere he worked.
“Marks were added during the pandemic, for example, as if some days he had entered at 10 at night and left at nine in the morning the other day, as if to justify the overtime and make it coincide that the hours were actually worked. ”, published El País, which accessed the administrative investigation document.
The INAU will not only denounce and sue José Ignacio López criminally, but is also awaiting a report from the National Office of the Civil Service (ONSC) to determine whether to dismiss the official.
According to El Observador, the son of the union leader tried to justify the hours worked with testimonies, but investigators concluded that it was impossible to precisely verify what happened in such an extensive period of time.
According to INAU authorities, López’s actions could constitute crimes that will be evaluated by the Prosecutor’s Officeand if there is a ruling against you, you must compensate the state agency.
Source: Ambito
