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02-02-2012, 03:10 PM
The director of the Construction Workers Pension Fund (Fopetcons) said yesterday that he would be seeking legal advice to help locate the RD$1.168 billion pesos that should have been deposited in the National Treasury for the work on public works projects by the Odebrecht Company, the Brazilian company that is a leading contractor to the Fernandez administration. Luis Miguel Martinez Glas, the executive director of Fopetcons, said that the institution has talked to Odebrecht and to the ministries of Public Works and Communications and Hacienda in search of these funds that should be used for the social security of the workers.
Martinez Glas said that the lawyers would go through those state institutions that are responsible for collecting this money and send it to its destination, so he is not afraid "to take the measures we are advised to take and which are needed to deal with the officials responsible for the diversion or distraction of the money," he said.
The executive director defended the 1%, which by Law 6-86 the construction companies set aside for social services.
He condemned the statements made by the presidents of Copardom and Acoprovi that "promote judicial disobedience, when they tell business owners not to pay the 1%."
He said that this pension fund uses "the resources in a clean and transparent manner and there is a team of men and women here that does not lend itself to the detriment of such a fragile sector as that of the construction workers."
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Martinez Glas said that the lawyers would go through those state institutions that are responsible for collecting this money and send it to its destination, so he is not afraid "to take the measures we are advised to take and which are needed to deal with the officials responsible for the diversion or distraction of the money," he said.
The executive director defended the 1%, which by Law 6-86 the construction companies set aside for social services.
He condemned the statements made by the presidents of Copardom and Acoprovi that "promote judicial disobedience, when they tell business owners not to pay the 1%."
He said that this pension fund uses "the resources in a clean and transparent manner and there is a team of men and women here that does not lend itself to the detriment of such a fragile sector as that of the construction workers."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)