Cortizo appointee resigns as legislator  corruption case brews

Rubiela Pitano appointed by ‘Nito’ Cortizo as Director-General of the  National Disability Secretariat (Senadis) has resigned.

“In view of the events known by all  and for the need to address the legal situation in which I have recently been linked, which demands my full attention, I inform my decision to decline the appointment made to me as director General of Senadis,” Pitano said in a statement he released Monday, July 29, through her Twitter account.

On July 25, published that the accusatory criminal system (SPA)  set for next August 6 two hearings related to alleged irregularities in the legislative forms that the former deputy of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Rubén De León handled.

One of those hearings is to assign charges to De León and Pitano, who, according to the Public Ministry’s inquiries, had transferred $15,000 to her niece Sumari Chong. The latter told the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office that the case does not belong to her

According to the prosecution, the funds would come from the legislative forms that were assigned to De León in the past five years. Including the rime when he was president of the National Assembly.

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