The Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues an adverse opinion on the bids and some areas of the disbursements of the Municipality of Toa Baja.
The Report reveals that supplier A devised a scheme in which he was the owner of companies A and C, Project Manager of company B belonging to his ex-partner, and had an agreement with Supplier D to use his name and then subcontract him on the projects (see diagram on page 12). With this scheme, seven payments totaling $86,773 were made from 2011 to 2013.
These situations were referred to the Department of Justice and to that Department's Office of Monopolistic Affairs on September 1, 2016 and are pending resolution.
Supplier A was awarded work related to the exterior washing of buildings, repairs to the dome of the Government Center, glass installation, and leak repairs. In the scheme, supplier A's father prepared several of the quotes.
The audit points out that the false appearance of competition deprived the municipality of selecting the best offers, benefited a particular supplier, and that the award with false documents distorted the basic purpose of the request for quotes. In addition, these situations may constitute the offenses of fraud, falsification of public documents, and undue interference in government operations as defined in articles 202, 211, 254, and 269 of the 2012 Penal Code.
The Report covers the period from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2014
See Audit Report M-17-25.
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