: Turning a blind eye to robber politicians

For the State, an audit is a systematic review of the management of public funds, which is carried out by an official or an entity. When the Comptroller General, the great auditor of the nation, reviewed the accounts of the payments that Pandeportes made to federations and sports organizations, he found that more than $13 million were handled irregularly.

 This very soft opinion was made despite the  destruction of documents in Pandeportes and a journalistic investigation of this newspaper verifying  that the youth of the regions and other poor areas of the country did not receive their  sports equipment.

 The investigations of the Public Ministry went further, discovering falsehoods in the alleged imports of the companies participating in the deal

 The only thing that can be inferred is that the Comptroller’s Office wanted to be selective, mercifully lavishing protection for high-profile politicians of the past and of the current government. It is a pity that the welfare institutions of Panama have to go through humiliations and shortages, when others turn a blind eye to the robbery in Pandeportes. – LA PRENSA, Sep.26