The former legislator admitted that she received a salary without showing up to the Assembly and involved others from the PCN party. “She makes a series of statements that must be proven in the investigations,” said the attorney general.
The attorney general, Raul Melara, revealed this morning that an investigation of irregularities was opened in the Legislative Assembly denounced by the former deputy Cristina Lopez through your Twitter account. López involved in other cases of nepotism other people linked to the National Concertation Party (PCN).
On Sunday, January 12, at the end of the day, Lopez admitted on her Twitter account that, in effect, she has received a salary without showing up to the Assembly. However, he said he is not the only one who received salary without arriving.
He then mentioned several people, some with criminal proceedings opened for serious crimes, such as homicide. And he held the coordinators and leaders of the PCN responsible for allowing these practices. The deputy said that within the fraction of the PCN there are also people who received salary without arriving. And he mentioned four specific cases: Colonel Roberto Leiva, and former deputies Elizardo González Lovo, Dagoberto Marroquín and Rafael Machuca.
Before this, the prosecutor Melara reacted:
The exposed in this account is serious.
How @FGR_SV We are going to investigate and if the facts are true, the criminal responsibilities involved will be deducted. https://t.co/FIczpCNoLb
– Raúl Melara (@MelaraRaul) January 13, 2020
Melara explained that they will first investigate whether the account through which Lopez made the complaint belongs to her.
If it is proven that it is hers, then the veracity of the irregularities reported by Lopez will be determined.
As a first step it will be to contact the former deputy to ratify the anomalies reported by her.
“She makes a series of assertions that must be proven in the investigations,” Melara said.
Information revealed by El Diario de Hoy details that former deputy López received $ 2,000 a month as legislative advisor for eight months, without getting to work because she lives in the United States.
Cristina López served as a deputy in the 2015-2018 legislature and currently resides in the United States.
The Diario de Hoy and elsalvador.com published last week a series of reports in which it is demonstrated how all political parties make use of the seats in the Assembly to employ family, friends, co-religionists and former deputies.
The former deputy López also said that Mario Ponce would have authorized the hiring of Hilda Jiménez, mother of the girl Katya Miranda, who also lives in the United States. Lopez said Jiménez “received a two-year Assembly salary.”
Jiménez reacted on his social networks and rejected what was said by the former deputy, and said it is a “slander.”
PCN admitted fraud in payment to Cristina López and Prosecutor will investigate
Last week, Mario Ponce said that he has requested the corresponding instance to find a way for the former deputy of that political institute in the period 2015-2018, to return the money she received from the State as payment for her position as administrative collaborator .
According to Ponce, it is the institutional financial unit who would have to do the calculation and then notify the former deputy to return it. “The institution will have to take the necessary steps for that case,” said Ponce.
The case also led to the reaction of the Attorney General of the Republic, Raul Melara, who said that they will investigate the former deputy López for charging $ 2,000 as an employee of the Legislative Assembly although she has been residing in the United States for several months.
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