Last week, it published Last Hour an information on the syndicator of accounts that is pending this year to make two reports concerning the office of prevention and call against corruption. It is laudable to have an Anti-Corruption Office in a Community so seriously affected by this evil, but, as elsewhere, the fight against this scourge is carried out through the discreet investigation and immediate turnout of prosecutors and judges, here neither there nor the other.
To begin with our Anti-Corruption Office is a tireless source of issuing press releases, which is quite unheard of for an institution that should precisely operate from the absolute mutism/discretion. And if the press releases were announcing corrupting them, they would be right, but so far, the Office has found zero corrupt. In good Spanish this is known as “a lot of noise and few nuts”.
Then there is the fact of navigating the procelous waters of pretending to set ethical standards about public salaries and prebendas, charging almost a hundred thousand euros a year from the public purses. In good Spanish this is known as “advice I sell and for me I do not have”.
The darkest time of corruption and lack of transparency in our community was in the late 1990s that ended with Jaume Matas outside Consolat. At that time, neither the administration nor the treasury nor the interveners detected fraud and corruption, it was the parliament that uncovered the shortcomings of the system. at that time, the current director of the office was already an intervener. It’s like “putting the wolf to take care of the sheep now”.
Besides, what sphere does our Anti-Corruption Office move in? Who limits their performance? Who’s auditing her? Is it free to keep issuing press releases that cast a heavy shadow on the people quoted, with nothing ending in anything?
If it is a political body but independent of political action, do we not run the risk that it will precisely fall (or is already falling) into the temptation to make a policy of attrition with its “apolitical” decisions?
When a body that should be transparent and silent, is the source of so many doubts, contradictions and clearings about its operation, its nature and its ends, something does not add up considering that the objective pursued – the hunt for the corrupt – to date yields blushing results: zero. Either in the Balearic Islands there is no longer corruption (and therefore the Anti-Corruption Office has no sense of being) or if there is and we carry 0.0 corrupts detected, the Anti-Corruption Office also has no sense of being and less of collecting the succulent emoluments it charges.
