COSTA RICA NEWS — Nonetheless one other scandal concerning the nation’s housing company INVU has surfaced. There might be little doubt concerning the corruption concerned within the Villa Paola housing venture at Guarari, Heredia, says INVU president Sonia Montero. The Guarari venture surfaced earlier this 12 months as a corruption-plagued INVU neighborhood.

“This isn’t a suspicion,” mentioned Montero grimly, “It’s completely sure that, of the 250 households certified to inhabit the venture in 2009, 67 functions had been eliminated to place in different names.” This means that Montero ordered opinions of many tasks from the previous.

One of many earliest was reported in Heredia when a number of officers had been accused of inserting relations within the low value housing, together with the supervisor of a venture and an engineer. (See Detectives Raid INVU, Financial institution for Proof.) When the Citizen Motion Get together received the election and took over in Might, their officers have been wielding a brand new broom.

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Montero advised La Nacion that the brand new accusations have been turned over to prosecutors who have already got begun new prison instances involving INVU. Among the many {qualifications} wanted for INVU housing is that one should not have property and obtain earnings under a sure determine.

Montero named names when she spoke with the paper, giving the instance of Luis Froilan Salazar. He obtained a home even supposing information present a mortgage in his identify of 29 million colones. Two acquainted names have popped up: Amarilys Aguilar and Arturo Arguello.

Aguilar was director of Social Pursuits at INVU and was fired earlier this 12 months for one more sequence of corruption accusations. Arguello needed to do with execution of tasks. Court docket prosecutors raided the INVU and Banhvi (housing financial institution) places of work Aug. 27 to assemble proof of corruption.

The legislation requires that the household of a recipient of an INVU residence earn not more than twice the minimal wage for an unskilled employee, which might be at the moment 556,414 colones month-to-month. The troubled Guarari venture was financed by Banhvi and executed by INVI.

Housing Minister Rosenda Pujol lamented that households that didn’t advantage poverty housing obtained the modest properties. She mentioned the issue “had little to do with the previous Administration. The issue stems from Nationwide Housing Monetary System practically from its inception.”

Article by iNews.co.cr, reposted with permission

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