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The Comptroller General found within the framework of the Control Megaoperation that the District Municipality of San Antonio approved two deadline extensions that did not have technical and legal support in the construction project of the vehicular bridge over the Cumbaza River in the province of San Martin and that the application of a penalty for late payment of S 208135 for the 12 days wrongly granted in said extensions was not noticed in the approval of the final liquidation of the project. According to the Specific Control Report No. 007-2022-2-0471-SCE the entity signed the work contract on November 19 2020 for an amount of S 6927000 and a term of 240 calendar days. . The contractor began the work on December 5 2020 but months later requested an extension of the term No. 1 for 4 days under the justification that the Government had declared mandatory social immobilization from April 1 to 4 2021 for prevent the spread of Covid-19 and progress could not be made with three items concrete formwork and stripping related to improving access to the bridge. Subsequently the contractor requested an extension of deadline No. 2 of 8 days alleging that his staff was going to stop their work to carry out antigen tests to discard Covid-19. After the approval of the supervision both orders were approved by the entity. In this regard the control team verified that the extension of the term No. 1 was not appropriate since the social immobilization used by the consortium as support for its request did not apply to construction activities. In addition the items that would supposedly be harmed by this restrictive measure should have been executed in March 2021 and completed in April of the same year however it was found that the contractor never started said works. These same items related to the improvement of the accesses to the bridge were used by the contractor to request 8 days of work extension No. 2 which is why there was no cause for delay either since they were items not executed and deducted. As these 12 approved days between the two term extensions did not have technical and legal support the contractor should be fined S 208135 however in the final settlement of the work approved on December 30 2021 the application of said penalty for late payment was not noted. Based on these facts it was determined that an official of the entity would have presumed administrative and criminal responsibility. The subsequent control report is published on the institutional portal www.contraloria.gob.pe and the result was communicated to the head of the District Municipality of San Antonio so that he can determine the responsibilities of the official involved in the irregular acts. Similarly the Public Prosecutors Office Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Officials was informed so that it initiates the corresponding criminal actions.
