The Ministry of Agriculture in Ecuador denounces a possible influence peddling

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) filed this Tuesday, October 4, 2022, with the State Attorney General's Office a complaint for alleged irregularities identified in the Unibanano Control System. This system is a platform in force since 2012, updated in 2014, in which, according to the Banana Law, the data of producers, exporters and marketers are registered and updated. The objective of the MAG is to monitor and control the sales contracts of the fruit with the corresponding exporters that are authorized to market. Days ago Diario EXPRESO announced this irregularity that the authority had found, now the investigation is formalized once the complaint has been filed with the Prosecutor's Office. According to the complaint, while the MAG was carrying out a control to make the procedures transparent, which was initiated by the current administration in the Unibanano System, it became clear that the list of catalogs of registered producers included the property "Unibanano ...