2024-09-10 16:51:34
The Ministry of Finance confirmed that Olga Núñez has left the Budget Undersecretary’s Office. Núñez was involved in a bonus payment scandal.
The Undersecretary of Budget of the Ministry of Finance, Olga Núñez, who until recently was involved in a scandal over the payment of bonuses, decided, personally, to resign from her position on June 30, 2024, this State Portfolio reported.
“It is necessary to clarify that the economist Olga Núñez was not dismissed from the institution. She decided, personally, to resign from her position on June 30 of this year,” the Ministry of Finance reported. It also indicated that the recognition plaque that Núñez received “was made and delivered by officials of said Undersecretary.”
In addition, the Ministry of Finance reported that the National Director of Revenue, Daysi Dávila, was provisionally appointed as Undersecretary of Budget on July 1.
Núñez was involved in a scandal over the payment of a million-dollar compensation of USD 22 million to the brothers José, Elías and Juan Bucaram Aivas, who initiated a long and controversial land litigation on Palo Santo Island (Guayas) against the Ministry of Agriculture.
The payment was made through the issuance of domestic debt bonds to meet the execution of a habeas data in favor of the Bucaram Aivas, but which was later observed by the Constitutional Court, which ordered the recovery of the money paid. The curious thing about the case is that the Bucaram Aivas received those bonds, formally, on December 27, 2023, through the Vector Global WMG brokerage firm, in an account at the Centralized Securities Depository of the BCE.
This is a brokerage firm where Mauricio Andrés Zurita Núñez worked at the time and who was later appointed manager. Zurita Núñez is the son of the Undersecretary of Budget of the Ministry of Finance, Olga Núñez. After the scandal, the Ministry of Finance responded at the time that it was not the State Portfolio that chose the brokerage firm for the payment of the bonds, but the beneficiary of the bonds.
Source: PRIMICIAS