Will Net Vasquez be Criminally Charged?

Prime Minister Briceño updated the media on the Net Vasquez, B.T.L. Credit Card Scandal.  Briceño says that the former Chairman of B.T.L. Nestor Vasquez is querying some of the credit card charges.  Vasquez was forced to resign after News Five revealed that he had misused the company’s credit card and racked up bills at B.T.L.  Vasquez has hired attorney Estevan Perrera to challenge some of the charges for the period 2016 to 2020.  The bill is more than eight hundred thousand dollars and the public was under the impression that Vasquez had paid what he owed as they were calling for him to be criminally charged.

Prime Minister John Briceño

“With the issue of Net Vasquez as I am told that his lawyer now is asking for some receipts and all of these things and it is a lot of charges. Obviously it seems that they are just trying to frustrate the system or to extend the time from they will have to pay. But we do understand, I would like everyone to know that whatever is owed to B.T.L. will be paid. It has to be paid back. And so it is not like we are not trying to do anything.”

John Briceño

Hipolito Novelo

“He is paying back some of the money, some might say that’s a level of acceptance of guilt. He gets the luxury of not facing jail time, not even charges. I think that is the people’s query. You are not going after this man who misappropriated; some may say that’s a big word for the other word, funds of B.T.L.”

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Well I think that would be a matter for the Board of Directors or the management of B.T.L. to deal with. Not for myself at the political level. What I can tell you is that at the very least we are ensuring that the monies are received and Net Vasquez has given the indication that he will pay back what he used in the company credit card which he should not have used, that he is going to refund the money back. No as to if there will be criminal charges or not that another matter for the people at B.T.L. to decide and not for us in the political directorate. From what I am told the people at B.T.L. knew that account, every month they used to take out what was his personal charges but they were not collecting it. So that is another matter, internal matter at B.T.L.  It is not as if though he was taking money without people knowing that he was taking. The people at B.T.L. knew that he was using the credit card.  The People at B.T.L. had an account where they were keeping track of what he was using. Now the people of B.T.L. did not collect until it became a huge scandal and then they had to take action.”