The Specialized Public Prosecution Office for Fighting Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) has intervened the San Cristobal city government for suspected corruption following a series of complaints. PEPCA director Laura Guerrero Pelletier said that they are seeing evidence of corruption in Mayor Raul Mondesi’s administration. Mondesi is a former MLB player turned politician for the opposition PRD party. He subsequently left the PRD and ran as candidate for senator on the ruling PLD party ticket in the 2012 election. He was elected mayor in 2010 after serving as a legislator (PLD-San Cristobal) for several years.
Guerrero Pelletier said her office intervened with the aim of gathering documents relevant to the investigation and possible penal proceeding. The move is also backed by audits by the Chamber of Accounts, the government body that monitors government financial management.
PEPCA interviene el cabildo San Cristóbal por supuestas anomalías