The Salvadoran prosecutor's office on Tuesday (March 15) launched a search of the offices of Parliament, controlled by the opposition for a few more weeks, as part of an investigation into several hundred alleged fictitious jobs.
"The General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of El Salvador is executing a search order on the premises of the National Assembly, as part of an investigation for irregular jobs,"
the institution said on a Twitter account.
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The search, authorized by a court in San Salvador, could take three days, said the head of the prosecution's anti-corruption unit, German Arriaza.
It is a question of
"collecting all the information in order to establish whether there are people in contract with this institution and who do not work there"
, he underlined.
The Parliament Employees Union recently lodged a complaint denouncing the existence of around a thousand fictitious jobs within the institution.
The Salvadoran Parliament is currently dominated by two opposition parties, on the right the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) and on the left the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN, ex-Marxist guerrilla).
But it will be renewed on May 1 following the legislative elections of February 28 which marked the victory of Nuevas Ideas, the party of President Nayib Bukele, allied to the center-right Grande Alliance Nationale (Gana) party.
Nayib Bukele will thus control the unicameral Parliament which he faced during the first two years of his five-year mandate.
On February 9, 2020, he even went so far as to burst into Parliament with the support of police and soldiers armed with assault rifles.