The Social Security Institute has already opened a financial audit process for the Irene Rolo Foundation, in Tavira, after having received, «via email, a complaint/exposure» about alleged irregularities in that institution.
The ISS, in response to the questions put to it by the Sul Informação, despite not revealing the authorship of the complaint email, nor when he received it, adds that «the Inspection Unit of the Algarve of the Inspection Department of this Institute proceeded, immediately, to the opening of a financial audit».
The Social Security Institute, in its answers, explains that "by definition, this type of intervention includes complex and time-consuming procedures, since they imply, namely, the evaluation of all the accounting procedures and the internal control system instituted in the entity".
In the specific case of the “complaint/exposure” received, the Institute says that “it is very vague, because it does not specify any facts of which it claims to be irregular, nor the agents of these practices”.
Therefore, Social Security says that "it will be necessary to resort to the formal hearing of the complainant, in order to obtain clarification of the facts on which the complaint/exposure is based".
The alleged irregularities in the Irene Rolo Foundation were publicly denounced by Macário Correia, resigning president of the institution. As our newspaper revealed, the former mayor accused the foundation's administrators of using the IPSS.
According to Macário Correia, several irregularities, such as the collection of travel and other expenses that were never made, the payment of remuneration, for his own benefit, without communication to Social Security and the maintenance of one of the administrators as an employee of the Irene Rolo Foundation, despite long ago reaching retirement age, they cost the institution's coffers around half a million euros.
In the responses sent to the Sul Informação, the Social Security Institute said that, in 2014, that entity “carried out an inspection of three social responses from the institution in question, regarding the conditions of organization and functioning”. But such inspection did not detect, then, anything abnormal.
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