To date, 1,721 files of public servants of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) are in the process of investigation, of which 45 are related to serious administrative offenses such as bribery, diversion of resources, influence peddling, abuse of functions , cover-up and contempt.
Of the total investigations in process, 261 complaints correspond to the year 2019, 749 to 2020 and 711 to the first semester of the current year.
The Preliminary Results Report of the Internal Control Body of the FGR, corresponding to January-June 2021, specifies that “an upward trend is perceived in the files being processed during the year.”
From the end of 2020 to June 30, the investigations in process increased 31.7%.
Investigations in detail
According to the document submitted to the FGR by Arturo Serrano, head of the Internal Control Body (OIC), a copy of which was sent to the Chamber of Deputies, of the 45 investigations into serious misconduct, five are for bribery, the same number for diversion of appeals, two for influence peddling, 29 for abuse of functions, one for concealment and three for contempt.
Of the active investigations for abuse of functions, seven correspond to 2019 and 22 to 2020.
By bribery, three are from two years ago and two from last year.
Two of those corresponding to 2019 and three from 2020 are due to “diversion of resources”.
The two existing investigations for influence peddling correspond to 2020, the only one for cover-up is from 2019, and for contempt there is one from 2019, one from 2020 and one from the first half of 2021.
“During the first semester of 2021, 759 administrative files were filed, in which probable administrative irregularities committed by public servants of the FGR are investigated, of which 711 are under investigation,” the report details.
The 48 remaining investigations were concluded; that is, 22 files (46%) were filed and 26 (54%) reports of alleged responsibility were issued.
In the first six months of 2021, 326 investigations were concluded, of which 267 were archived and 59 reports were issued on presumed responsibility.
At the end of January of this year, there were 1,369 public servants denounced whose file was still in process; in February, 1,381; in March, 1,483; in April, 1,488; in May, 1,582 and 1,721 in June.
Other offenses
Of the total investigations in process, 1,676 deal with non-serious conduct such as negligence, improper exercise and breach of laws, among others.
In 2019 there were 247 matters related to non-serious conduct, 719 in 2020 and during the first half of 2021, 710.
Of the total of the 1,676 files related to non-serious conduct, 1,521 correspond to omission or deficiency of functions, 61 are related to financial situation, 51 to lack of respect, 14 are due to improper exercise, 10 due to negligence, eight due to breach of laws, six for financial damage, four for improper use of documentation or information, and two for other matters.
With regard to administrative responsibility procedures, the report indicates that at the beginning of 2021 there were 113 procedures in process in the “area of responsibilities” and that 58 were initiated in the first half of the year.
Between January and June, 84 administrative liability procedures were resolved; in 12 of which an administrative sanction was imposed.
“As of June 30, 87 procedures were in process, of which 47 are accumulated because they are the same public servant and for the same conduct,” the report cites.
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