The president of the commission designated to audit the sale of State Sugar Council (CEA) lands, former Environment Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez says a number of irregularities have been discovered even as the investigation is just getting underway. One of the irregularities detected is the sale of the same piece of property to multiple individuals.
Rojas Gomez also said that of around 42,000 files that the commission has received for investigating, they have reviewed 10,000 to date, and they have found situations where the same piece of land has been sold several times over. Preliminary investigations have also revealed that some individuals are in possession of more property than the sales records show.
The commission is working on a consolidated inventory that will be presented to the President in bi-monthly progress reports via the Ministry of the Presidency.
When asked if there were government officials and members of the military involved in the CEA land, Rojas Gómez said that they had not yet reached that part of the investigation.
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Listin Diario
1 March 2017
