Did litterering aid Ministry of Economy and Finance corruption?
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has suspended 18 employees, including supervisors, at the Arraijan-Chorrera Autopista toll gate for an alleged long-running scam in which it is claimed that millions of dollars were lost. But although the ministry, after a sting operation, filed criminal charges against the 18 individuals, the following day an assistant prosecutor released them because no audit had been performed prior to the arrests. The investigation, however, continues. It is alleged that the slovenly drivers who routinely throw their receipts out the window immediately after passing through the toll gates played a key role in the scam. These tickets would be collected and recycled, with the money from the tolls they represent skimmed off of the proceeds paid to the government, increasing toll gate workers’ income by some $25 per day. There is no word on any investigation about police complicity, although there are armed cops at the toll gate at all times, who have never been hear
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