Congress: Three civil servants resign over procurement scandal and overpriced contracts

Amid constant criticism from the Congress of the Republic due to overspending and contentious contracts, Jose Williams Zapataholder of the said State power, confirmed that at least three civil servants in the parliamentary administrative area have resigned for this reason.

As we knew, resigned the heads of the areas of Logistics, supplies and human resources.

The scandal currently playing out in the Legislative Assembly began a few days ago with the revelation of certain expensive buffets -for lunch and dinner- of eighty soles for each member of Congress at different times of the day.

The situation led to the opening of other journalistic investigations. The information published by Cuarto Poder was added to other complaints for alleged iPhone Purchases for legislators, expensive rugs, unnecessary parking feesamong others.

On March 2, we learn that the resignation of the Chief Officer, José Cevasco Piedrawas accepted by the President of Parliament.

In regards to, Williams Zapata released a statement on Twitter and announced that he was continuing parliamentary director generalJavier Ángeles Illman, will replace him until the Board of Directors adopts other decisions.

Ángeles Illman will assume the aforementioned function in accordance with Article 40 of the Legislative Regulations.

“As part of the restructuring of the Administration of the CongressI accepted the resignation of José Cevasco from the Town Hall, as well as three officials of the administrative area“, he said.

A few days ago, he also indicated that the procurement processes carried out by Parliament will be “restructured (…) in order to apply expenditure control measures”.

“The Congress of the Republic has placed at the disposal of the Public minister and the General Controller the necessary information for the sake of transparency in the processes”, underlined the President of the Congress.

Nelson ShackComptroller General of the Republic, reported that a “control the mega operation” in all entities of the national government – planned for weeks – in the context of expensive purchases of goods and services in Congress.

“Next week begins a big control mega-operation. We will mobilize more than 1,300 listeners and we will intervene practically in all the entities of the national government”, he commented.

At the same time, Williams Zapata indicated that “it has already been established that the Directorate General for the Administration of the Congress of the Republic provide you with all the logistical and information facilities necessary for the audit committee appointed by your firm”.