An audit carried out by the Ministry of Education under architect Andrés Navarro has revealed several irregularities. A red flag is now out on the Cooperativa Nacional de Maestros (Coopnama), an entity whose budget is larger than 14 ministries of state, as reported in El Dia.
El Dia reports that the Ministry of Education retains 20% of the payroll that is transferred to the public teacher cooperative. With the public teacher payroll at RD$5.47 billion, the retentions amount to about RD$15.6 billion for 2017, or about 10% of the RD$152 billion the Ministry has budgeted for 2018.
In addition it is now publicly known that the Ministry of Education also delivers RD$25 million a month to the ADP for payments of cooperative membership quotas.
On 10 October 2017, the Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (Adocco) requested that the public teachers’ cooperative share their financials. Adocco says that the cooperative has refused to reveal how it has spent the teachers’ money from January 2012 to September 2017 the sum of RD$1.16 billion received from the Ministry of Education for the payment of public school teacher membership quotas.
Coopnama has a board presided by Valentin Medrano, Francisco Santana, Fernando Rodriguez and Mario Olivo.
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El Dia
Listin Diario
Listin Diario
11 October 2017
