Prosecutors want the mayor and vice-mayor removed from office.

Alagoas247 - The two managers are accused of illegally appointing hundreds of public servants to commissioned positions with the aim of obtaining electoral advantages. The Public Prosecutor's Office of Anadia found that the City Hall had hired 77 employees in 2009; 17 in 2010; 90 in the last three months of 2011; and 204 in 2012, the year of municipal elections, even though there was no need for so many commissioned positions.

The employees hired on a temporary basis performed a wide variety of functions such as driver, security guard, caretaker, treasury assistant, receptionist, secretary, and street sweeper. All of these were routine and permanent positions, purely administrative in nature, and cannot be considered appointed positions. To worsen the situation, some of these appointed employees occupy the places of permanent civil servants who were removed from their positions for being part of the political opposition to the current city administration.

The head of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Anadia, prosecutor Salete Adorno, draws attention to the situation experienced by a tenured municipal public servant who, upon returning from vacation, found a political appointee performing his duties, even occupying the same desk previously used by the civil servant.

"The State Public Prosecutor's Office issued a recommendation for this situation to be rectified because the civil servant neither requested nor caused the leave of absence. But the City Hall, through the practice of yet another illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional act, distorted the recommendation and initiated an investigation against the civil servant in question. Thus, the victim of the municipal administrator's improper conduct became, unduly, the subject of an investigation," criticized the prosecutor.

The hiring of a large number of appointed positions led to salary delays for Anadia's civil servants for months. In addition to the delays, the Municipality had to take out a loan of R$ 147.442,63 with Banco do Brasil to pay amounts deducted from employees' salaries due to loans taken out by them with payroll deductions, which were not repaid to the financial institution. "This amount does not include interest and monetary correction, which further increases the damage to the municipal public coffers," added Salete Adorno.

Faced with the default, the prosecutor began investigating whether the same procedure occurred with the social security contributions of civil servants, which are also deducted directly by the City Hall and should be transferred to the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), given the absence of a separate Social Security System in Anadia. According to the INSS, of the 32 cases of transfers investigated by the State Public Prosecutor's Office, six are in an irregular situation with Social Security.

"It should be noted that in a universe of only 32 employees listed by this Public Prosecutor's Office, information was not found for six, which represents 19,92% of the sample space. If this same proportion is applied to the total number of municipal employees, then we will have dozens of employees excluded from social security protection, not to mention the misappropriation of amounts deducted from these employees' remuneration - the employee's social security contribution portion," revealed the Public Prosecutor of Anadia.

Due to the acts of administrative misconduct, the State Public Prosecutor's Office argues that the defendants should be sentenced to full restitution of the damages; loss of public office; suspension of political rights for five to eight years; payment of a civil fine of up to twice the value of the damages; prohibition from contracting with the public sector or receiving benefits and tax or credit incentives, directly or indirectly, from the public administration for a period of five years. The ministerial body also requests that the defendants be ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings.

With gazetaweb.com