Global Courant 2023-04-16 06:43:07
Director of Honduran Customs, Faust Calixdenounced this Saturday alleged acts of corruption in the institution that governs and said that in the coming days he will present before the Public ministry fourteen files on cases of corruption to the detriment of the State.
“We are talking about personnel from the Honduran Customs Administration that in collusion with importers the country suffered a millionaire tax impact”, indicated Cálix on social networks.
According to the senior official, in the alleged acts of corruption There are staff from the past administration, which ended on January 27, 2022, and from the present.
“Regardless of who it is, whether it is staff from the old administration or whether it is staff that I have entered, if they committed irregular acts I will not have the lukewarmness to denounce them and whether it is from my party or not, the corrupt is corrupt and it must be pointed out as such, ”Cálix stressed.
He added that the acts of corruption which will be reported to the Public ministry are associated with a merchandise that was dispatched from six customs of the country, about which he specified details so as not to hinder the investigations.
The Honduran customs It has been for many years one of the many sources of public corruption, a scourge that the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castrowho took office in January 2022, has vowed to fight.
To curb corruption, Castro asked the United Nations for support last year for the installation in his country of a mission against corruption and impunity, which could possibly be installed in Tegucigalpa in the remainder of 2023. EFE
