Jet-setter suspect  flaunts travel record

After several hours of questioning, the Secretary-General of the National Assembly, Franz Wever, left the offices of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office bearing a precautionary order to report once  and month bans him from leaving the country.

Wever, who twice failed to show,  went to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office for the investigation into the multi-million dollar compensation scam of bus quotas, known as “diablos rojos “, to make way for the operation of the Metrobús transport system.

The controversial former deputy, who twice failed to be re-elected but is still on the Assembly payroll and is angling for a magisterial post has long figured in the administration of various sporting bodies which have enabled him to travel the world without having to purchase a ticket or pay for a meal or hotel room.

Faced with this precautionary measure to, Wever responded that it is “better because I am tired of traveling, I have gone to 53 countries and four continents, so I cannot go anywhere else to continue spending money”.

Regarding the alleged compensation received, he said that he only charged for a bus he had at the time and added that he showed all documents to the Prosecutor.

According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office 528 people are being investigated, of which 63 were civil servants of the Transit and Land Transportation Authority and the Secretariat of Goals, while the other 465 are transporters

The investigation showed that there was a disproportion between the existing quotas in 2012 (1,762) versus the 3,317 compensations paid in 2014, whose amount reached $95.9 million.

It also reveals mentions that there were reassignments of quotas so that the owners obtained more benefits, with an endorsement from the concessionaires and from the authorities.

Wever, who is also president of the National Swimming Federation, aspires to be a magistrate of the Court of Auditors.