Infonavit's general director, Octavio Romero Oropeza, reported that at least four cases of corruption have been detected within the agency in recent years, for which the business and employee sectors of the board of directors have prevented audits and, consequently, sanctions.
During President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's morning press conference, the official highlighted these cases in which companies, notaries, and employees of the institute itself have been favored, to the detriment of the workers.
One of the cases presented is that of Telra Realty, which was hired by the Institute in 2014 to design and operate a platform to manage housing solutions for borrowers who had moved.
The contract was awarded for 100 million pesos, and the company had two years to establish the platform.
"When this deadline expired, the company failed to deliver the contracted service; it should have been penalized at the time for noncompliance. On the contrary, not only was it not penalized, but the board of directors authorized the payment of compensation in the amount of 5 billion pesos," which occurred in 2016, the Institute's director stated.
In response, the official questioned: "How come, given a 100 million peso contract and a breach, instead of penalizing him, you pay 5 billion pesos in compensation?"
Romero highlighted that the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) discovered, through information presented by the National Banking and Securities Commission, that in the Telra Realty case, "there was triangulation of funds between the companies contracted by Infonavit and the bank account of an Infonavit official who served as an advisor to the general director in 2018."
Another example of corruption, Romero Oropeza added, is the program called Line III, which consists of financing housing developers for beneficiaries.
