HAVANA, February 9 (Cuba Press) - An audit at the "Recreation and Tourism Provincial Company" in Pinar del Río revealed instances of misappropriation, bribery, stealing, abuse of power and document forgery, all of which are crimes under the existing penal code.
Among those implicated are the chief of the Basic Food Unit, through whom speculators sold produce to the company and who received part of the profit from the sales, and the accountant for the company, who enabled the fraud to proceed by violating established procedures.
The chief of transport and the vice director in charge of performance were found responsible for lack of control in the proper filling out of routing sheets and the improper deliveries to fuels and materials.
There is a Code of Ethics for the managers of State enterprises as well as for members of the Communist Party, but both groups are frequently found to operate for personal gain.
Recently, in Aguada de Pasajeros, Villa Clara province, in central Cuba, an inspector asked the manager of a beauty shop to account for 17,000 pesos that were found missing. She replied: "I don't know, I really don't know where they are."
Roxana Valdivieso, the manager of the beauty shop in the Agro-Industrial Complex "Primero de Mayo" is awaiting a determination from the Fiscal Ministry on her case. According to those close to the case, Valdivieso is 27 and thus a product of the revolutionary process. They add that the
term "missing" used by inspectors in relation to the money is a code word for stealing by managers at the service of the State.
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