OFF THE CUFF: Small potato “irregularities”

COMPARED with some of the massive financial “irregularities” during the previous administration$850,000 is small potatoes, but another call for an investigation is under way.

The Director of the Government Innovation Authority (AIG), Irving Halman, has aked the Public Prosecutor with a for an investigation of an alleged irregularity by that institution in a contract with According to a statement released by the Government Ministry of Communication f, it is a contract for “the installation of the CRIPTEXT cellular application in cellular officials of the Public Ministry, Ministry of Security, Police and Ministry of the Presidency for a term of 9 months maturing in December 2014”.
According to the complaint, the agreement provided $ 850,211 “to license the acquisition of a messaging platform for 100 mobile users that were not installed at the organizations in the contract”.
“The findings also reveal possible irregularities in the procedures for awarding contracts and payments to individuals corporations, with alleged damages to the Treasury,” The complaint named elements and events that must be investigated, such as “direct procurement by Homeland Security for delivery of an application that was still in development, for delivery to the AIG for testing as a pilot with AIG users that did not correspond to entities under the contract, and possible overruns in acquiring licenses “,

During the last administration, The management of AIG was exercised by Eduardo Jaén. Another suspect who may be facing sleepless nights as he ponders the prosecutor’s questions.