This institution was created in 2015 during the second term of Broad Front President Tabaré Vázquez, but it lacks regulations, a budget, and personnel, she said.

In an interview with La Diaria, Ferrari announced that President Yamandú Orsi’s administration will initially focus on three lines of work this year.

To this end, it proposes regulating the so-called “crystal law” and the procedure for processing complaints before Jutep, as well as creating an Anti-Corruption Observatory.

The legislation will list many public officials who will be required to submit sworn declarations of their assets and income.

Among them are the president and vice president of the Republic, ministers and undersecretaries, heads of oversight bodies and non-state public figures, legislators, mayors, and council members, judicial and military authorities, and directors of autonomous entities and decentralized services.

The law will establish regulations for the application of fines for non-compliance with sworn declarations, which currently do not exist.

Nor is any regulation establishing what information in sworn declarations must be made public. “In my opinion, Jutep itself has covered up data that it had no reason to cover up,” stated the new head.

Ferraris concluded that the regulations will make the prevention work in this area “truly efficient” and that sworn declarations “play the preventive role they are supposed to play, because otherwise (Jutep) is a repository for sworn declarations.”

He recalled that a complaints portal was installed at the end of 2019, but a procedure for handling them was never established, and currently there must be between 400 and 500 unresolved complaints, some of which have been pending since 2020.

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