The SIGEN will ask the UBA to appoint an intermediary to begin the audits

After the Attorney General of the Nation’s Treasury, Rodolfo Barra, signed the opinion so that the General Sindicatura de la Nación (SIGEN) functions as the auditing body of the national universities, This Monday the organization will invite the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) to appoint an intermediary to begin the controls.

In this regard, the head of the organization, Miguel Blanco, told radio Milenium that he hopes that the University of Buenos Aires assigns an official and internal controls on the largest faculties begin to be planned. They will also be audited 2,200 agreements that study houses have with third parties.

The owner of the SIGEN reported that next week it will send a letter to the rector of the UBA, Ricardo Gelpi, to invite him in institutional terms to begin a dialogue on how to begin the audits.

National universities: what will be audited

The president Javier Mileiafter having vetoed the university financing law, He requested that SIGEN audit the universities. Blanco wants “the audit to begin to be planned and the documentation we need to do it made available,” he indicated.

In addition to auditing the public funds that the 61 public universities receive from the National Treasury, Thousands of agreements with third parties will be reviewed.

“We look at the origin of the funds and when they were received. In the case of the UBA it has more than 350 agreements, we must see what funds were received and with whom it was made. We have found cases without public biddingthose are things that we are going to verify,” explained the former president of IDEA.

In that sense, he explained: “Here there are a confusion between autonomy and autarky. The university has academic freedom and self-government, but autarky is financing and they would be autarkic if they were financed with their own funds and they are not.”

The information arising from the audits will be publicly accessible

He said that the reports produced by SIGEN ““They will be accessible to any citizen because they are public information.” Furthermore, he explained that the organization has only 530 employees and audits the entire national State, so they are going to “having to add people”. “Today it is frozen to hire people, but we are going to have to request an exemption to hire people,” he added.

Blanco is going to assist the Secretary of Education, Carlos Torrendell, because some universities “they don’t even break even in general” to your wallet. “There are delays in the accountability of universities, let’s see why this happens,” he concluded.