He Director of Control of the municipality of Las Condes denounced the payment of millionaire bonuses in the Municipal Theater Corporation of the commune.
As published ThirdEduardo López presented a report in which he gives an account of «findings, which apparently from this address, are of a serious nature»which add to other acts of corruption within the municipality.
After analyzing the expenses incurred by this division, López discovered that Apart from the monthly payment for their work, certain officials received payment of bonuses, bonuses and a bonus.
«Neither the payment of a bonus nor a bonus was authorized in any employment contract or contract annex that endorses, grounds or authorizes it,» he stated.
The text adds that these payments «they are also not consistent with the differences in the amounts granted for each of these concepts, nor are objective criteria established to differentiate the delivery of a specific amount to a worker.»
One of the cases cited in the report is that of the general manager of the Municipal Theater Corporation, Constance Harvey, According to his contract, he has a monthly salary of $5,364,613 with a monthly bonus of 25%.
However, in September he had a bonus of $95,787 and a payment called «September bonus», which reached $2,407,324.
In the case of the same official, the control director maintained that there are discrepancies between the amounts paid and the salary settlement, since – even considering the unauthorized payments – The final amount should have been 6,308,733 pesos, but that month he received a transfer of 10,077,396 pesos.
The text also warns irregularities in the signing of the agreement between the entity and the Fundación Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil for the works to be carried out in January 2023 and the same month of 2024.
REACTIONS IN THE MUNICIPALITY
In response to a request from councilor Patricio Bopp (exUDI), the mayor Daniela Penaloza (UDI) confirmed that «immediately the theater was asked to prepare a response, to be able to share it with you in a commission, a meeting.
«There is no problem, there will never be any, in opening that information, having the response from the lawyer, the manager and, above all, understand what is emerging today as a critical point: why it is today and it was not four, five or ten years ago, things that were and have always been done«he added.
The councilor Catalina San Martin (exEvópoli) replied that «I don’t know if these are situations that had been maintained or not in previous years, and I say this because of what you just said, mayor, but «There are transfers for around 10 million that would not have had a document proving it.»
«I don’t know if that had happened before, I don’t think so, and that is why we believe it is necessary, we discussed it with Councilman Bopp, to request this commission so that these things and others that appeared in the investigation carried out by the control department are effectively clarified, so that. «They are not just things that perhaps happened for many years, I think they are things that we had not seen.»he stressed.