Although Ministry of Finance technicians have for now ruled out a possible hack behind the bug, this led them to this Friday. The case, which resulted in overpayments to dozens of officials and suppliers, jeopardizes several million pesos of the treasury.
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As EL TIEMPO revealed in the news, dozens of public employees received double or even triple their salaries due to an error in the SIIF platform responsible for the deputy ministerial position of that portfolio. Although the overpaid amounts were not disclosed for security reasons, this newspaper obtained figures on what was transferred, what was taken back, and what was bottled.
High Government sources confirmed that the total amount transferred to EL TIEMPO was close to 4 billion pesos. And the amount corresponding to double or triple payments one billion pesos.
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“A possible hack was ruled out. However, technicians mention that one file arrived damaged, which means the file may have a virus that affects the rest of the information“Sources close to the case announced.
Although officials and employees have been asked not to withdraw surpluses, Obstacles have already been identified. EL TIEMPO even has information about cases where the same civil servant received 8 times his November salary.
Republic Bank With the support of banks and the government, he managed to recover most of the trillion pesos in record time.
But there are a few excess zeros that we’ll see on the right, and this could be equal to: 400 billion pesos, but government sources say half that.
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A worrying situation is the situation of civil servants who are seized or sued for food and the excess of this amount can be deducted directly, believing that it is their own income..
In these scenarios, each bank should be requested to reverse the transactions. And to make returns easier. Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla has just announced several measures.
For example, those who withdraw money to give it back will not be charged 4 per thousand.
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Stating that the error was caused by a computer and technical problem, Bonilla added: 8 organizations were identified where double or triple payments were offered.
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