The company noted that the management will continue in the hands of Tomislav Topic (photo) and Jan Topic.Photo: File / EL COMERCIOCable Andino's shareholders are Telconet and businessman Igor Krochin. Photo: File / EL COMERCIOThe Comptroller's Office established that Cable Andino, the firm that was granted the authorization title for the installation of infrastructure and operation of the submarine cable, did not report income to the State between June 30, 2015 and July 31, 2017. For this reason calculated an annual loss of USD 1 million.The company acknowledges that in 2015 it did not invoice anything and says that since 2016 it has paid without inconvenience.Javier Galarza, its manager, told this newspaper that USD 22,784.7 has been paid to date.This corresponds, according to what he said, to 0.5% of billing for services and 1% of Universal Service.This company was established on November 22, 2012 in Manta and on May 23, 2014, it requested permission to operate, through international access to the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), from the former Secretary of Telecommunications, Jaime Guerrero.After a year, Ana Proaño, former director of the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Telecommunications (Arcotel), granted the qualifying title for a 20-year renewable term.But until July 31, 2017, when the examination concluded, the Comptroller's auditors observed that the firm had sold all the cable capacity and did not declare income.Galarza explained that the income adds up to USD 1.5 million and has been declared to the Superintendence of Companies and the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Telecommunications (Arcotel).On the other hand, the audit concluded that the company made sales to Telconet for values ​​lower than those established in the proposal that it delivered during the period in which the concession permit was granted.After an inspection at the Manta station, it was also found that it did not comply with a historical record of customer activation, it was not possible to verify the capacity assigned to each one, the dates of assignment, the routes, the type of services and the billing.Galarza responded that there is no rule that requires them to keep a historical record at the station and for security reasons in this industry it is handled with codes.The Comptroller's Office also confirmed that the firm did not demonstrate – before obtaining the enabling title – financial solvency nor did it provide supports that guarantee the projection of income of more than USD 12 million per year.The financial statements for 2012 and 2013 show zero income and results.At this point, the auditors blamed the public authorities for not having observed the lack of economic capacity and for having passed the project from non-viable to feasible.According to Galarza, the economic capacity was solved with a solidarity guarantee from Telconet and a certificate from Alcatel, confirming that the payments were insured.He added that, like any new company, it started with resources from its shareholders and that its contribution has been increasing by more than USD 2.5 million between 2012-2014.Cable Andino's shareholders are Telconet and businessman Igor Krochin.Telconet, in turn, registers Tomislav Topic and his son Jan as partners. Both are being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office for alleged money laundering and have just agreed with the UAFE to return USD 13.5 million without substantiating its origin, which they served to make Telconet capital increases.In the operational part, Telconet provides telecommunications services with the data transmission provided by Cable Andino and for this it uses the optical fiber purchased from the company: Latamfiberhome, which also has Telconet and the Chinese Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies as shareholders, opened on May 22, 2014, on the Durán road.These companies plus Megadata belong to the same family group and have been growing, mainly as State providers (see graph).In the illicit association process with Odebrecht, in which former Vice President Jorge Glas and his uncle Ricardo Rivera were sentenced, there are messages from Tomislav Topic to Rivera asking the "VP" to call three agencies to ask them to speed up the concession process.The emails are from April 2013, before permission was granted to Cable Andino.Galarza clarified that no administrator maintained communication with Rivera and that there was a meeting with Glas, in which he offered his full support, but "it never materialized because in all the institutions the procedures were carried out in advance and following the laws and rules of the case. ”, between 2012 and August 2015.These messages and the Comptroller's findings have been analyzed by the Prosecutor's Office for four months, when the report with criminal evidence was sent.On his part, Ricardo Freire, from Arcotel, said that he is soaking up the subject to give an interview next week.© Rights reserved 2022 EL COMERCIO Group.The total or partial reproduction, by any means, of all the contents without the express authorization of Grupo EL COMERCIO is prohibited.