According to official sources, the objective of the action is to guarantee the recovery of the supposedly misappropriated public funds. The technical document prepared by forensic auditors from the Comptroller's Office details that irregular financial movements were detected in the income generated by the municipal agency, corresponding to fees, permits, and management fees, whose destination was not properly credited to the municipal accounts. The audit concluded that there was a significant accounting difference between the amounts collected and those actually reported, for which reason the measure of seizing assets was ordered. Although the decision was formally executed this week, the Comptroller's Office has not yet published the official communication or the corresponding resolution on its institutional portal, a situation that keeps the details of the procedure under wraps. However, sources close to the process confirmed to La Verdad Panamá that the file is under legal analysis, while possible administrative and patrimonial liabilities are being evaluated. Héctor Valdés Carrasquilla, who was mayor of San Miguelito for over a decade, accumulates several oversight processes related to his management at the head of the municipality, especially for alleged irregularities in the use of funds and in the awarding of contracts. The former official has not made a public statement about this new action, although his defense has maintained in previous cases that the audits respond to 'political persecution' and that all municipal accounts were properly audited at the end of his administration. The entry 'Comptroller orders seizure of assets from former mayor Héctor Valdés Carrasquilla' was first published on La Verdad Panamá. Javier Collins Agnew La Verdad Panamá. The General Comptroller's Office ordered the seizure of assets amounting to 285,845 dollars and 82 cents from the former mayor of the San Miguelito district, Héctor Valdés Carrasquilla, as part of an administrative process derived from alleged irregularities detected in the funds raised by the Metro Mall municipal agency, during the months of March and April 2022. The measure, instructed by Comptroller Anel Flores, includes the preventive retention of real estate, vehicles, bank accounts, deposits, securities, and credits against the State that appear in the name of Carrasquilla and other former officials linked to the case, among them Sulay Linares, Gelacio González, and Pedro Perea, who are also mentioned in the report of the National Directorate of Forensic Audit.
