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* Feature Article: More Bad News for Rodriguez
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* More Bad News for Rodriguez
Alcatel Firm Paid RodrÃguez Credit Cards
The records shows that on July 31, 2002, former
president, Miguel
Angel RodrÃguez's, account at the BICSA Bank was paid
by a cashier's
cheque drawn from the Banco Cuscatlán account helt by
Servicios
Notariales Q.C., the same firm that made the other
payments to former
members of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) directors on
behalf of Alcatel.
Servicios Notariales received from Alcatel
us$9.600.000 dollars for
services, who in turn paid out several members of the
ICE board of
directors and the credit card of account of the
expresident.
Telenoticias, channel news 7, uncovered that
Servicios Notariales paid
us$5.200 dollars to the credit card account
4655-6401-0100-3658, the
card used by RodrÃguez.
This was the second credit card held by RodrÃguez,
paid by Servicions
Notariales. On the day day (July 31) us$14.750 went
to pay a credit
card balance on card 4732-9816-6992-3003 issued by
the Banco Interfin
and again used by RodrÃguez.
The payments at the banks, using cashier's cheques,
were handled by a
someone well trusted by RodrÃguez" Rafael, Sequeira
Garza, who was at
the time the ex-president's advisor during his
administration.
Sequeria has been called by authorities to give his
declarations on the
accusations by José Antonio Lobo, who sadi that
RodrÃguez asked for 60%
of the us$2.400.000 dollars commission paid by Alcatel.
More Bad News for Rodriguéz
Another accusation against Rodriguéz is being brought
to light by
Noticias Repretel, the television channel 6 news
team, that the former
president received us$200.000 in commission for the
underground cabling
contract that is underway in San José.
The news channel based it's report on information
received by judicial
sources.
The Spanish firm Abengoa S.A. was awarded the
us$55.000.000 dollar
contract, of which 50% is being financed by the
Spanish government and
the other 50% by the Deutsche Bank S.A.E in Spain, to
bury all electrical
and communications cables in downtown San José.
The project is almost complete, the Compañia Nacional
de Fuerza y Luz
(CNFL), an ICE subsidiary, is putting the final
touches to the digging
and installation of conduits to begin the
installation of the actual
cable lines.
Humberto Arce, Legislative Deputy for the Bloque
Patriótico
Parlamentario political party, presente the FiscalÃa
de Delitos
Económicos (prosecutor for financial crimes)
documentation backing up
the accusations against Rodriguéz.
The accusation is that former president Rodriguéz
personally undertook
to negotiate the terms of the contract with the
Spanish government for
the us$55 million dollar credit.
According to the documents, ICE also awarded Abengoa
the construction
contract for the thermal electric plant “Ciclo
Combinado Garabito”.
The contract was awarded in July of this year by ICE
directors, Pablo
Cob, Carlos Castro, Hernando Pantigoso and José
Antonio Lobo.
Directors, Mayid Halabà and Pablo Ureña voted against
the contract.
Abengoa and the Costa Rican firm Alconstra, together
were awarded the
ICE contract to construct three substations in
Tarbaca, Poás and
Cariblanco, worth us$5.4 million dollars and awarded
in August of 2003.
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*Ericsson Asks Costa Rica Court To Restore $130M
Contract
The Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson said
Wednesday it is
asking Costa Rica's top court to restore a $130
million contract that
has been nixed by the national ContralorÃa General de
La Republica
(Comptroller's office).
The action comes against the background of official
investigations
into possible kickbacks or favors by several
companies to two former
presidents and other officials.
In a news release, Ericsson denied wrongdoing and
said it was appealing
to the Constitutional Court for an injunction to save
its contract with
the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE).
"The contract is perfectly valid," the company said.
On Monday, ICE announced it was dropping its appeal
of a decision by
the comptroller's office to reject the contract for
600,000 cellular
telephone lines.
Ericsson said it wouldn't make further announcements,
pending legal
inquiries, but it denied paying bribes or favors to
officials.
It said it "vehemently" condemned acts of corruption
"since Ericsson,
on a national and world level, is a company known for
its business
ethics and rectitude."
ICE legal director Giovanni Bonilla said that the
contract was being
annulled and that the Institute would start seeking
new arrangements
for the lines.
He said it also has started legal steps to bar
Ericsson from future
government business.
Former ICE director Jose Antonio Lobo testified
recently that the
local manager for Ericsson, Ricardo Taylor, had paid
the luxury
hotel bills for at least three officials during a
trip to Switzerland.
Lobo is also under investigation in connection with
payments to his
wife's bank accounts from the French company Alcatel,
which won a $149
million contract in 2001 to install cell phone lines.
Lobo said that some of that money went to former
Costa Rican President
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who last month became
secretary general of the
Organization of American States
*ICE Expects Shortage of Cellular Lines Starting
December
As expected, the cancellation of the Ericsson
contract and the problems
with Alcatel, Pablo Cob, president of Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) confirmed yesterday that come
December there will
be a shortage of cellular telephone lines.
Pablo Cob, president of ICE, said yesterday that
there are approximately
65.000 TDMA lines and some 15.000 GSM lines (lines
that customers
did not pay their bills) on hand that will be used up
by the end of
the year.
And that will mean, that come next year, Costa Rica
will be back to
the old way of having to wait for cellular service.
In the past, customers wanting to connect to the
cellular network
waited up to one year until the French
telecommunications firm completed
it's multimillion dollar contract to install 400.000
GSM cellular lines.
The reason for the pending shortage is the
cancellation of the Ericsson
contract that was supposed to install a new GSM
network with 600.000
cellular lines and be ready for use early next year.
The ContalorÃa General de la Republica (the
Comptroller's office)
cancelled the contract amidst allegations that
several high ranking
ICE executives attended a meeting with the president
of Ericsson Costa
Rica in Prague, Czech Republic, earlier this year and
Ericsson paid the
bill.
The ContalorÃa cited altogether 38 points of
contention in the ICE-
Ericsson contract that was worth us$130.000.000
dollars and finally
on September 22 nixed it completely.
The other option ICE had was to expand the existing
contract with
Alcatel. However, due to the recent revelations of
pay offs by Alcatel
to ICE board members, that is reaching all the way to
former president
Rafael Angel Rodriguéz, ICE is left to start the
search for a new
supplier.
ICE has already started the tender process that will
take at least a
year and a half before it can award the contract and
then install the
service.
Cob also announced that ICE has started legal action
against Ericsson
to recover damages, both financial and the reputation
of the Institute,
as well as damages suffered by current subscribers of
the GSM cellular
service.
*Math whiz found his challenge on the Internet
A 20-year-old Costa Rican student from San Ramón de
Tres Rios has won
second place in a worldwide Internet tournament that
puts forward 200
math problems to be solved within a time limit of two
months.
He is David Krumm Cabezas, who is studying
mathematics at the University
of Costa Rica and hopes to graduate next year. Krumm
wants to travel to
the United States were he says that he will continue
his studies in
mathematics. "I know that there are many possible
avenues that I can
take."
"I hope to go to MIT, but first I need to pass the
entrance tests,"
he said of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in
Boston
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