Minister María Paula Romo would be in the center of the distribution of the Hospitals, according to Daniel Mendoza’s confessions

The ex-morenista assemblyman also linked 18 legislators, some colleagues from benches and other independent

The former assemblyman and investigated for alleged organized crime, Daniel Mendoza, revealed an alleged structure of the distribution of Public Hospitals in Ecuador. In the center, it locates the Minister of Government, María Paula Romo, and around him appear the names of assembly members of the ruling Alianza PAIS movement and the benches of independent legislators.

The digital medium La Posta transmitted this August 26, 2020 an organization chart that Mendoza would have delivered to the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), who are investigating it for irregularities in the contracts of the Pedernales Hospital.

According to the information, Mendoza confessed to having managed at least two hospitals: the one in Pedernales and the one in Bahía de Caráquez. The information is held by the Prosecutor’s Office and is part of the judicial process.

In the report, they indicate that Mendoza made this diagram of the hospitals handed over to assembly members in the period in which the impeachment trial against Minister Romo was filed.

In addition, the digital medium presented chats of conversations supposedly between Mendoza and Romo, with which an alleged closeness is evidenced. In one of the messages, Mendoza asks that the commission for a position in the public sector be for “Karen.” After a few minutes Romo would have replied: “Done. Karen goes ”.

In another message, Mendoza suggests Tito Nilton’s name for Governor of Manabí and sends his number and his resume to Romo. Nilton is the one who is currently in charge of the Government of Manabí. His appointment is given one day before the Assembly’s Audit Commission files the political trial against the Minister.

Of this Legislative Table, according to the diagram, seven of the nine assembly members would have been part of the “distribution.” In response to the report, Romo and the 18 legislators said that the information Mendoza presented in his statement is false.