Monterey, NL. the secretary of Mobility and Urban Planning of Nuevo LeónHernán Villarreal Rodríguez, reported that they will file a complaint with the Specialized Prosecutor for Combating Corruption on Tuesday, February 8, for irregularities detected in the construction of Line 3 of the Metrorrey Collective Transport Systemmainly due to claims from contracted companies for 621 million pesos.
We are going to denounce possible cost overruns, disappearance of documents, payments made without justification, work that is out of specification and poorly performed, incomplete work deliveries and poor administration of the work, which caused non-recoverable and financial expenses,” said Villarreal.
He recalled that the initial infrastructure budget for Line 3 was presented, for the first time, in 2012, in the cost-benefit analysis before the Investment and Infrastructure Unit, which was for an amount of 3,740 million pesos.
Later, when the work had started, an adjustment was made in the cost of the infrastructure that reached up to 5,290 million pesos.
It is worth mentioning that the administration Rodrigo Medina He began the work in October 2013, but left it unfinished in September 2015 when his six-year term ended.
“In the past administration, of Jaime Rodríguez, in 2016, the cost had another adjustment of up to 6,903 million pesos and at the end of the administration there were payment commitments for 7,378 million pesos and (we have) claims from the contracted companies. , for 621 million pesos”, said the official.
“These are the possible irregularities that we are going to denounce, and the Prosecutor’s Office will be in charge of defining the possible crimes or the responsibilities, both of the officials and of the companies,” said Villarreal Rodríguez.
stationary wagons
On February 4, Hernán Villarreal reported that he would file a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor for alleged irregularities detected in the direct award process in the acquisition and contracting of the reconditioning service for German wagons for the Metrorrey Collective Transport Service.
The main problem is that the delivery-reception of only 12 of the 24 cars that were acquired has been made, which cannot be integrated into the operation, since they were not conditioned to the requirements of the facilities of the three subway lines. .
“Critical components such as engines and transmissions were not renewed, they are more than 40 years old and had to be adapted to operate with twice the power supply,” said the state official.
The cost of acquisition and conditioning was 1,128 million pesos and 90 percent has been spent.
The wagons of German origin have represented a cost of 206,233 pesos per seat to the state, which is higher than the 198,821 pesos that were paid to the Chinese company.
“The Prosecutor’s Office will have to determine the responsibilities and the crimes that are being committed,” said the secretary.
Myrna Guerrero, Legal Director of the Ministry of Mobility and Urban Planning, clarified that it will be the Prosecutor’s Office who determines the crimes, according to the facts and evidence that will be presented.
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