The ministers and their worth

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At least half of the bureaucrats in the government have not filed the obligatory declaration of their property and net worth. Investigative reporter Minerva Isa filed a report in Hoy newspaper that says that, "some 1,500 state employees were supposed to file their declaration of wealth and have not done it." In fact Isa says that exactly 49 deputies, 138 mayors, 973 city council members and more than a hundred city treasurers have failed to file. A list of 2,982 people on government payrolls are legally obliged to file these declarations, and the paperwork is kept at the national treasury. Isa says that at three years and eight months of the current administration, three hundred employees on the Executive Branch payroll have not yet filed. The law governing the sworn declaration of wealth (DJB) is Law 82-79, but it is widely ignored by many government appointees. Yes, all 32 senators have filed, as well as the 16 Supreme Court judges, in accordance with Law 327-98. Only five members of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), and three from the Chamber of Accounts have filed their DJBs. According to the feisty reporter, this impunity engenders a recurrence. Since nobody has ever been jailed for failing to declare their assets, and since there are no penal clauses, and since the documents sit in a vault with no purpose, nobody looks to see if an official's assets have changed from the beginning of their service to the end of their employ. Minerva Isa says that in the last review carried out by the United States Agency for International Development on ten cases chosen at random, analysis showed that the data contained in the declarations was not close to reality.
The list published in Hoy today, presents the names and posts of dozens of ministers and deputy ministers in the Fernandez government.

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