{"id":167145,"date":"2021-10-27T07:17:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167145"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:47:48","slug":"participacion-ciudadana-calls-for-investigation-into-senatorial-use-of-social-compensation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/participacion-ciudadana-calls-for-investigation-into-senatorial-use-of-social-compensation-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana calls for investigation into senatorial use of social compensation fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Leidy-Blanco-Garcia-Participacion-Ciudadana-e1635342456524.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167187\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Leidy Blanco Garc\u00eda, coordinator of the Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana, a civic watchdog organization, criticized the \u201cdiscretional and corrupt way\u201d the Social Compensation Fund is used by many senators and said that the fund distorts the legislators\u2019 role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanco Garc\u00eda made the remarks commenting on the \u201cEl Informe con Alicia Ortega\u201d that looked into the use of the almost RD$300 million senators\u2019 Social Compensation Fund (&#8220;El Barrilito&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanco Garc\u00eda says the findings by journalist Alicia Ortega could be evidence of &#8220;criminal embezzlement.&#8221;  The investigation provided evidence of funds that were assigned to persons that did not receive the money. The investigation did not look into who had actually received the funds. It also revealed millions were paid to companies owned or with close ties to the senators, and millions in payments without support documents or with support documents that violated the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanco Garc\u00eda called for greater controls and for a regime of consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/pais\/podria-ser-investigados-como-desfalco-uso-de-fondos-del-barrilito-dice-pc-1176383\">Noticias SIN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/26\/alicia-ortega-what-the-senators-do-with-the-millions-in-extra-funding\/\">DR1 News<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leidy Blanco Garc\u00eda, coordinator of the Participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana, a civic watchdog organization, criticized the \u201cdiscretional and corrupt way\u201d the Social Compensation Fund is used by many senators and said that the fund distorts the legislators\u2019 role. Blanco Garc\u00eda made the remarks commenting on the \u201cEl Informe con Alicia Ortega\u201d that looked into the use of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/participacion-ciudadana-calls-for-investigation-into-senatorial-use-of-social-compensation-fund\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167145"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167188,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167145\/revisions\/167188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}