DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Gloria Reyes, director of the Superate social program

Gloria Reyes, the director of the government social assistance agency that manages the Superate Program, has requested that the Chamber of Accounts carry out an audit to the entity she directs, back-tracing it to 2012. Reyes is also asking for an audit of the program’s budget execution from 16 August 2020 to 31 December 2022, the years she has been the program’s manager.

The Superate program has been in the news after a multi-millionaire fraud was detected when cardholders complained they had not received their RD$1,600 monthly allotments. An investigation revealed that around 300,000 social assistant electronic cards could have been cloned.

Legislators of the leading opposition party, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), have been demanding that Reyes respond to how the fraud happened and why the department did not act before the...