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Former Minister of Security Arturo Corrales He stated that he felt clean in his office when he held office and stressed that his management was transparent in the management of public resources. Corrales reacted to a report from the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA) that questions his management.
The CNA offered a press conference this Monday, June 5, in which it shows an investigation into the lack of transparency and abuses in the management of State resources, in particular measures that were taken in the National Defense and Security Council and in the Security rate in the governments of Porfirio Lobo Sosa and Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Corrales told LAPRENSA that he is only accused of abuse of power but throughout the report they do not detail this abuse of power and they do not mention it in relation to embezzlement of public funds. He said that rather he made public the destination of the resources he received as Security Minister from the “tason” fund, despite the fact that the law allowed him to keep it secret.
“I made the destination of those funds public, because I considered that they were State resources and should not be a secret, they were resources of the Honduran people and I made the destination public,” Corrales said. there is nothing that speaks of my period as minister or anything of the 15 cases investigated that has to do with my management.
“When I retired as Minister of Security, in addition to the reports from the OAS (Organization of American States), the Colombian Police, Transparency International and ASJ, I also published in detail all the funds that I administered during my term, including those of the Security Tax , I did it in a public act at UNAH”, said Corrales.
He recalled that on January 8, 2015, in a public act at UNAH, he presented a detailed report on his management and a detail of the destination and use of the funds under his responsibility was shown line by line. Corrales was Minister of Security in June from 2013 to January 8, 2015, that is, he was in charge of the country’s security for 18 months.
The former minister sent several documents such as the diagnosis he prepared in 2014, which shows how Transparency International and non-governmental organizations participated in the oversight process in the months that he had been in office.
He also sent a copy of the second evaluation made by the OAS in 2014, an evaluation report from the Colombian Police and also from Barómetro de las Américas. He sent a disaggregated report on the use of 7 billion lempiras in 2014.
1) Photo of Arturo Corrales, former Minister of Security. 2) Document on the diagnosis of fund management in 2014 3) Breakdown of the management of Security resources, under the management of Arturo Corrales.
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