Corruption has no qualms in the public management control system. There are officials fined for irregularities who continued to hold positions and others who left the country without serving a sentence. with the project Vendata It is possible to detect how far the Comptroller's Office goes in monitoring the management of public funds

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The current Venezuelan Oil Minister, Nelson Pablo Martínez, was sanctioned for corruption in 2011 by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR). The same official who has made a career in the oil industry since the 80s, was declared responsible in administrative proceedings due to "negligence in the preservation and safeguarding of public assets or rights" while he presided over Pdvsa Gas, as stated in the CGR 2011 report.
That sanction, for which Martínez had to pay a fine of Bs. 19.142,50 (about $1.871 at the exchange rate at the time), far from preventing his appointment to other positions in the public administration, as established by the Organic Law of Comptrollership and the Law against Corruption, has not interrupted its upward trajectory in the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, PDVSA. That same year he was appointed director of PDVSA Argentina and two years later he assumed the presidency of Citgo, the largest subsidiary of the oil company outside the country, a position that he maintains even after assuming the Oil portfolio in January 2017.
Martínez was not issued preventive measures provided for in article 112 of the Comptroller's Law, which may be proportional to the manifest risks of damage to assets determined by an investigation.
Nor does the fact of paying a repair not exclude you from the responsibility of causing damage to assets, clearly states article 88 of the Comptroller's Law.

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