The director of the General Audit Office of the Nation (SIGEN), Miguel Blanco, provided details of what the process will be like and what they will do if alleged irregularities are found. He also revealed which will be the first national university to be audited
In the midst of the dispute with national public universities, the Government is moving forward with its intention to audit them. The director of the General Sindicature of the Nation (SIGEN), Miguel Blancorevealed this Wednesday that the University of La Matanza (UNLaM) will be the first to go through this process and gave details of how they will do it.
The official confirmed that audits will begin next week “with some cases such as the University of La Matanza“. The order of the houses of higher education to be controlled will be determined “based on volumes of funds and quality of agreements,” the official explained.
“SIGEN had already audited (universities) in the past. Until the ruling of (former Treasury Attorney Carlos) Zannini in 2022 there was a team that audited universities, The team later had to be assigned to other parts, but now we are reassembling it“he stated White on Radio Con Vos.
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“We are going to work first on the work program that will be fundamentally in the control of the use of public funds received by universities“, explained the head of SIGEN.
If any suspicion of corruption appears in any of the audits, the case will be referred to the Anti-Corruption Office and the Administrative Investigations Prosecutor’s Officeexplained Blanco.
University teachers called for a new 48-hour strike
The National Federation of University Teachers (CONADU) called for a new strike of 48 h for him 21 and 22 of Octoberafter the ratification of the veto of the university financing law. They also called for a week of alert and mobilization starting next Monday.
“There are no negotiations of any kind with the government. And this lack of dialogue implies a very serious problem, because it has to do with the breakdown of a democratic pact in Argentina,” stated the general secretary of CONADU, Carlos De Feo, in a statement from the Trade Union Federation.
Source: Ambito
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