The Chamber of Accounts, the body in charge of auditing use of government funds, has reopened the case of the Plan Renove based on a governmental audit. There has been a volley of insults among those who were involved in the plan promoted during the Mejia administration as the solution to public transportation in the DR, as reported in the Listin Diario on Saturday.
Fabio Ruiz, the former executive director of the plan and Milciades Amaro defended their performance on the board in regards to the buses assigned to the private bus company, Terra Bus.
Juan Hubieres, of Fenatrano, who resigned after two years on the board of Renove, criticized that the case dosier did not mention Ramon Emilio Jimenez (Milo) who kicked off the purchase of the vehicles, nor Pedro Franco Badia, president of the plan until April 2003, nor Siquio Ng de la Rosa, who replaced Franco Badia.
As per Resolution 06-04, the Accounts Chamber requested that prosecutor Jose Manuel Hernandez determine the penal responsibility of the board members of the National Transport Council of the Plan Renove.
The Accounts Chamber says that the vehicles that would have been assigned to transporters ended up in the hands of third party persons and private transportation companies. It mentions Milciades Amaro Guzman and Antonio Marte, representatives of the state in the plan, as beneficiaries of 48 buses, a truck and 31 units. Amaro is shareholder of Terrabus and Antonio Marte of Aetra Bus.
Hubieres complained: “There is a clear intension to blame the transport union directors while leaving out of the corruption query the politicians and former officers of the past government.”