Conacyt de lvarez disappears 1,000 million pesos – El Financiero

AMONG THE FEW data of interest that the second delivery of the audit reports for fiscal year 2020 showed, highlights an alert on a possible embezzlement in the Conacyt.

The Superior Auditor of the Federation (ASF) warns against the loss of one billion pesos from the trusts which should have been extinguished by presidential decree and returned to the Treasury of the Federation.

Dogs of David Colmenares They point out that the reports of these irregularities could not be completed, because the deadline for reimbursement of the resources of five funds dedicated to the promotion of science and technology was set for June 30, 2021; that is to say in a financial year subsequent to the one currently reviewed by law by the ASF.

However, various signs of misuse of these dying trusts have forced the comptroller’s body to go ahead and confirm that, for that June deadline of this year, Conacyt has only paid Tesofe back. 964 million pesos, while on December 31, 2020, there was a balance of 2 thousand 65 million.

Presidential decree Andrés Manuel López Obrador to extinguish trusts established under the Science and Technology Act, was published on November 6, 2020 in the Official Journal of the Federation, so from this moment the body that directs Maria Elena lvarez-Buylla He should not even have touched the resources of those funds.

Nonetheless, according to the 407-DE audit, in the last two months of 2020 and in the period following the Presidential Decree, Conacyt engaged in alleged projects of the Institutional Regional Promotion Fund for Scientific, Technological and Human Development. innovation (FORDECYT -PRONACES) around 186 million pesos.

This is the indication that led the Colmenares team to suspect multi-million dollar irregularities in the extinguishing funds proceedings, which somehow have to be resolved in the second half of 2021, or they must be sanctioned with administrative responsibilities or criminal complaints.

The explanations that Conacyt has already attempted to give refer to the fact that, of the total funds, 1,935 million pesos were set aside because they were considered as liability liabilities to projects, or because they had been used to pay debts for administrative and operating expenses. .

However, the ASF’s own examination establishes that the administration of the Council did not provide proof of these resource reserves for 852 million pesos, in addition to the fact that in the amounts allocated to operating expenses a negative balance of 31 million was detected.

Alvarez-Buylla he will have practically a year to explain the destination of a billion pesos that had to be returned to the Treasury, or even reinstated if he is still in office.

The shadow of the persecution carried out against 31 scientists of the past administration hangs over the marine biologist, this for alleged deviations of a figure three times smaller.

ARGONAUT GOLD, THAT order Pierre Dougherty, just signed Alfredo Phillips Greene to lead the projects that the Canadian mining company operates in Mexico, the United States and Canada, hiring him as vice-president of corporate affairs and ESG (environment, social and governance), as well as director for Mexico. For the second quarter of 2021, Argonaut reported record production of 63,749 ounces of gold equivalent, record quarterly revenue of $ 120.2 million and net income of $ 21.8 million. Argonaut Gold was the fourth best producer nationally at 47,549 ounces and recorded higher production at its El Castillo and La Colorada mines, compared to 30,191 ounces a year ago, reflecting the impact of suspensions on 2020 for the pandemic and better laws in the latter operation. The Canadian company recently acquired mining claims from Desarrollos Mineros El Águila, previously owned by Fresnillo PLC, for $ 5.8 million, giving it a potential exploration area that quadruples mining operations to 5,884 hectares. The mining sector, in particular gold mining, has been one of the main pillars of the growth of the national economy, after the emergence of the Covid-19. In the second quarter of the year, the country’s eleven gold companies produced a total of 775 thousand 95 ounces of gold, 52% more than last year at the same time.

THE ALL-NEW SECRETARY General of the Aviators Union Association (ASPA) underwent its first acid test. This involves settling the disputes between the pilots included in Contract B and those in Contract A of Aeroméxico, concerning the collection of Claim as the airline that you run Andres Conesa He has already deposited them in a Mexican bank. About $ 70 million has already sowed discord between young pilots and those of the old guard. And it is that the former intend to charge the same as the latter, while they have contributed four times more than the former. Everything is derived from a simple arithmetic operation: the pilots with more time earn more and the company took more from them, and now the young pilots who earn less and have contributed less want to earn the same. Claim. The problem is that veterans are not represented on the ASPA committee. Today Wednesday there is precisely a meeting of the Committee during which a future assembly will probably be convened to settle this dispute, which is a hot potato for the captain. Humberto Gual.

ANOTHER HOT POPE is the one who has Alejandro Gertz Manero. Everything must be presented today at the hearing of the prison of the North Emilio Lozoya Austin. It is already difficult for the Attorney General of the Republic to grant more extensions, as requested by the defense of the former director of Pemex, and can ask the judge to modify the precautionary measure and to accuse him. If this scenario happened, Lozoya would be dealt with starting tomorrow. However, anything can happen.

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