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COSTA RICAN SECRET FUNDS HIDE POLITICAL FAVORS, CORRUPTION.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 04-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 964 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A secret political fund has been discovered in Costa Rica that has allegedly been used to pay presidential advisors and high-level government officials, and to finance certain activities within several ministries. The fund, whose official name is Fundacion de Cooperacion Estatal (FUCE), has been called a "parallel state," although its directors deny that it functions as such.

The newspaper La Nacion investigated FUCE and uncovered not only payments to various functionaries but also that the secret organization acts as a funnel for donations from a variety of international organizations to the government. The newspaper obtained from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce information confirming that FUCE managed one donation from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) of about US$660,000 for use in establishing the ministry's ventanilla-unica program, a mechanism by which foreigners seeking to open businesses in the country can get all the paperwork...

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