And so, on this nation, one public housing scandal ends with a former housing tzar and his ex-assistant getting three years in jail whereas one other scandal has barely begun. (See INVU Fires Two Top Officials in Scandal ) (Will these prime stage bureaucrats ever study that crime doesn’t pay the best way it as soon as did?)

The Monetary Crimes Tribunal discovered each Fernando Zumbado, former Instituto de Vivienda y Urbaissmo (INVU) chief, and ex-assistant Giselle Hay responsible of unlawful enrichment and abuse towards public finance in Zumbado’s paying Hay twice the wage proven on the books for the job.

The Tribunal additionally condemned each former officers to pay $7,400, the quantity of the surplus which Hay was paid, a wage licensed, based on the court docket, by Zumbado. The had been additionally fined 15,000 colones and 10,000 respectively in punitive damages to the state. (The case is underneath computerized enchantment.)

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The protection earlier had rejected the accusations that Zumbado had licensed Hay to be paid from a belief involving the the Ministry of Housing, Central American Growth Financial institution and the federal government of Taiwan. The motion occurred throughout Zumbado’s time period at INVU underneath ex-President Oscar Arias (2006-10).

Protection legal professional Javier Blandino for the pair had denied earlier that the fee was actually a double wage. Blandino accused prosecutors of “distorting actuality” and denied that public funds had been concerned and claimed all the pieces within the prosecution case was purely “supposition.”

Prosecutors had requested 4 years in jail for misuse of affect and 5 for unlawful enrichment, a corruption cost. The tribunal nevertheless used its discretion to mix the sentences. Prosecutor Ronald Viquez at the moment requested for the overpayment of $7,400 be paid again.

Commentary: That is an outdated case and stems from the day when the President’s brother, Rodrigo Arias, was underneath hearth within the alleged misuse of the Taiwan donation, certainly one of two critical fees of misused funds that marred the Arias second time period.

Zumbado up to now is the one one who has felt the warmth for these scandals. We typically surprise if political appointees have each heard of auditors. Who do they suppose they’re? Rock stars? The mayor of Toronto? We’re simply shocked that Zumbado didn’t run for a seat on the Legislative Meeting…

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