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04-15-2011, 02:10 PM
Superintendent of Insurance Felix Gutierrez protests that investigative journalists Nuria Piera and Alicia Ortega are picking on him instead of on individuals he called "thieves in government."
Yesterday, commenting on recent reports by Alicia Ortega and Nuria Piera he described the investigative journalists as "ignorant" and "illiterate". As reported in acento.com.do he said on the Cinevision Chanel 19 2pm program Version Transparente "in this government there are officials who are thieves" he said, excluding himself from the category.
He complained that the journalists do not investigate the officials who are stealing from their government posts and instead accuse him of irregularities in his post as head of the Superintendence of Insurance.
Recently, Nuria Piera revealed that the Superintendent of Insurance was engaged in a dispute with EdeSur and as a result had accumulated RD$3+ million in debt that he refused to pay and that his power service had not been cut off. After the TV report aired, the executive vice president of the CDEEE announced that Gutierrez had agreed to a payment plan with the company.
But her colleague Alicia Ortega focused on what she saw as irregularities in the purchase of a 4,058 meter-lot for the construction of the new Superintendence of Insurance headquarters. She said that an original RD$53 million sales price for the lot had increased to an actual sale of RD$111 million in a period of around a year and a half.
Ortega presented evidence showing that the property purchase had been grossly overvalued.
The TV investigative report indicated that the Superintendence did not comply with Procurement Law 340-06 in the purchase of the lot.
Ortega also focused on high restaurant consumption by Gutierrez using government-paid credit cards in 2009 n RD$42,841 (February), RD$122,365 (March), RD$43,900 (April), RD$56,089 (May), RD$26,624 (June), RD$94,945 (July), RD$12,800 (August), RD$21,500 (September), RD$45,701 (October), RD$67,970 (November), RD$71,020 (December), for a total for the year of RD$692,955 in restaurant consumptions. She observes a Police office makes RD$63,000 a year.
She also pointed out that he has 11 vehicles assigned to people at his service in his office, or himself, including three Land Cruiser SUVs and a Fortuner SUV.
Alicia Ortega also commented on the construction of a modern parking system for 80 vehicles at the Superintendence of Insurance at a cost of RD$30 million or RD$375,000 per each parking space. She observes that sources at the Santo Domingo Yacht Club that used the same system for parking yachts and that they were quoted RD$15 million for 170 yachts.
www.noticiassin.com/2010/11/superintendencia-de-seguros-compra-y-construye-sin-aplicar-ley-340-06/ (http://www.noticiassin.com/2010/11/superintendencia-de-seguros-compra-y-construye-sin-aplicar-ley-340-06/)
www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/2069/56/Euclides-Gutierrez-Felix-en-este-gobierno-hay-funcionarios-que-roban.html (http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/2069/56/Euclides-Gutierrez-Felix-en-este-gobierno-hay-funcionarios-que-roban.html)
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Yesterday, commenting on recent reports by Alicia Ortega and Nuria Piera he described the investigative journalists as "ignorant" and "illiterate". As reported in acento.com.do he said on the Cinevision Chanel 19 2pm program Version Transparente "in this government there are officials who are thieves" he said, excluding himself from the category.
He complained that the journalists do not investigate the officials who are stealing from their government posts and instead accuse him of irregularities in his post as head of the Superintendence of Insurance.
Recently, Nuria Piera revealed that the Superintendent of Insurance was engaged in a dispute with EdeSur and as a result had accumulated RD$3+ million in debt that he refused to pay and that his power service had not been cut off. After the TV report aired, the executive vice president of the CDEEE announced that Gutierrez had agreed to a payment plan with the company.
But her colleague Alicia Ortega focused on what she saw as irregularities in the purchase of a 4,058 meter-lot for the construction of the new Superintendence of Insurance headquarters. She said that an original RD$53 million sales price for the lot had increased to an actual sale of RD$111 million in a period of around a year and a half.
Ortega presented evidence showing that the property purchase had been grossly overvalued.
The TV investigative report indicated that the Superintendence did not comply with Procurement Law 340-06 in the purchase of the lot.
Ortega also focused on high restaurant consumption by Gutierrez using government-paid credit cards in 2009 n RD$42,841 (February), RD$122,365 (March), RD$43,900 (April), RD$56,089 (May), RD$26,624 (June), RD$94,945 (July), RD$12,800 (August), RD$21,500 (September), RD$45,701 (October), RD$67,970 (November), RD$71,020 (December), for a total for the year of RD$692,955 in restaurant consumptions. She observes a Police office makes RD$63,000 a year.
She also pointed out that he has 11 vehicles assigned to people at his service in his office, or himself, including three Land Cruiser SUVs and a Fortuner SUV.
Alicia Ortega also commented on the construction of a modern parking system for 80 vehicles at the Superintendence of Insurance at a cost of RD$30 million or RD$375,000 per each parking space. She observes that sources at the Santo Domingo Yacht Club that used the same system for parking yachts and that they were quoted RD$15 million for 170 yachts.
www.noticiassin.com/2010/11/superintendencia-de-seguros-compra-y-construye-sin-aplicar-ley-340-06/ (http://www.noticiassin.com/2010/11/superintendencia-de-seguros-compra-y-construye-sin-aplicar-ley-340-06/)
www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/2069/56/Euclides-Gutierrez-Felix-en-este-gobierno-hay-funcionarios-que-roban.html (http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/2069/56/Euclides-Gutierrez-Felix-en-este-gobierno-hay-funcionarios-que-roban.html)
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