📋 Tender Overview
The Comptroller General detected an economic loss of S / 619 million in the Executive Power, other powers of the State, autonomous agencies and public universities in the period 2016-2023, as a result of the Megaoperative Control to the National Government, informed the Comptroller General Nelson Shack.
He added that the mega-operation carried out between March and August of this year supervised a total of 356 public entities comprised of 240 of the Executive Branch (ministries, decentralized public agencies, programs, superintendencies), 7 of other branches of the State (Legislative Branch and Judicial Power and their executors), 65 autonomous agencies (TC, JNJ, JNE, Reniec, Onpe, among others) and 44 public universities.
It should be noted that, in the case of the Executive Branch, the supervised period included the presidential periods of Pedro Pablo Kuczynsky (20 months), Martín Vizcarra (31 months), Francisco Sagasti (09 months), Pedro Castillo (16 months) and Dina Boluarte (9 months).
Shack reported that with the mega-operation, 3181 control services were carried out, of which 967 were subsequent control and 2214 simultaneous control, with a controlled amount amounting to S / 109 274 million corresponding to budget executions from 2016 to 2023.
The main sectors intervened were Transport and Communications (40%), Education (20%), Sanitation (13%), Economic and Financial (8%), Agriculture (6%), Public Order (4%), Energy (4%), Health (2%) and others (3%).
As a result of the subsequent control, the mega-operation identified a loss of S / 619 million in which 1242 public officials have alleged civil, criminal and / or administrative liability. Of this number of officials, 1030 are from the Executive Power, 17 from other branches of government, 60 from autonomous bodies and 135 from public universities, which would have one or more responsibilities in the administrative (841), administrative PAS (202), civil (474) and criminal (321) fields.
In the same way, with the simultaneous control, the heads of public entities were alerted about adverse facts or situations that put the execution of public spending at risk, in order to make corrections. In total, 4264 adverse situations were identified as a result of 2214 simultaneous control services.
Of this amount, to date 1477 identified adverse situations were resolved, 2041 still do not present actions but are within the period of 45 days to address the alert, and 746 have not yet been corrected so far.
Shack Yalta stressed the importance of public managers taking immediate action in relation to the risks and adverse situations warned by the Comptroller General.
Emblematic cases
Shack presented some emblematic cases identified by the mega-operation, such as the case of the purchase of air disinfection equipment that did not fully fulfill its function, in the FAP Hospital, where the alleged criminal and/or administrative responsibility of five officials was identified, as well as the case of the lack of control of the National Superintendence of Control of Security Services. Arms, Ammunition and Explosives (SUCAMEC) where the location of 70 firearms involving six former managers with alleged administrative responsibility is unknown.
Similarly, in the same Political Administrative Sector, a loss of S / 2.2 million was identified in the National Superintendence of Sanitation Services (SUNASS) in the purchase of 469 personal computers that do not comply with the required characteristics, a case in which it determined the alleged civil and administrative liability of two officials, and also the fact of undue favoring of suppliers and beneficiaries in the Health Insurance Fund of the National Police where there are 17 alleged criminal, civil and administrative responsible.
In the Productive Economic Sector, the Rural Agrarian Productive Development Program (Agrorural) was alerted to the risk that farmers in poverty are harmed by reduced water supply, and the case of damage of more than S / 2 million for periods without support in the Chavimochic III contract and the lack of insurance policies was detected. with six alleged perpetrators (civil).
Four alleged perpetrators were also detected in the Banco de la Nación for the lack of control and actions to prevent fraud in the payment of the Yanapay Bond that caused a loss of more than S / 6 million, and the lack of installation of more than 140 recording systems that were not installed in ATMs to monitor user transactions.
Likewise, in the Cultural Social Sector, it was identified that 26 officials and servants of the Mi Vivienda Fund benefited a real estate company and its subsidiaries in the signing of an agreement that allowed them to grant mortgage loans to beneficiary families of Techo Propio, or the damage of S / 21 million in the Ministry of Health for the purchase of medicines without technical or legal support for patients with COVID-19.
In the case of autonomous agencies, it was reported on the case of the selection committee that awarded the purchase of carpets for the Congress of the Republic for S / 315 thousand to a supplier that did not meet the required requirements or the appointment of trusted personnel to a person without a professional title, among others.
Disaster Management
Comptroller Nelson Shack showed his deep concern about the upcoming arrival of the El Niño 2023 phenomenon and having found that to date only 6% of the budget of S / 3566 million budgeted for the execution of prevention works has been executed. "Hopefully (El Niño) does not come in a severe way because otherwise he will destroy us. Thousands of compatriots may die and there will be millions of dollars in losses of public and private infrastructure," he said.
