Former Ifarhu director arrested for unjustified enrichment

The former director of the Institute for the Training and Use of Human Resources (Ifarhu), Bernardo Meneses, was transferred this Thursday from the Tinajitas Penitentiary Center to the La Nueva Joya Penitentiary Center (Mega Joya), his family reported. Aizpurúa detailed that one of the banking units made the relevant reports, and as a result, the accounts were closed. Meneses will remain detained for six months while the corresponding investigations are carried out. In the statement, his relatives assure that banking entities have refused to provide information, documentation, and essential evidence to prove the reality of the facts and the traceability of the questioned funds. In addition to unjustified enrichment, Meneses is also under investigation for embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, and exceeding his functions, due to the delivery of economic aid to the children of politicians and businessmen. His acquaintances assure that this decision was executed without prior notification to his defense or his family, and without allowing him to exercise the respective appeal. The former Ifarhu director faces this charge after the Comptroller General of the Republic revealed in an audit an increase in his assets of $419,331 during his tenure. Prosecutor Azucena Aizpurúa explained that they have information that there is traceability regarding deposits and transfers between some of the beneficiaries of the economic aid. The Meneses family has also reported pressure and requests for him to resign from his internal aspirations within the PRD.