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Jutep Has More Than 400 Backlogged Complaints and Seeks System Overhaul After Cyberattack
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Jutep Has More Than 400 Backlogged Complaints and Seeks System Overhaul After Cyberattack

From El País · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Uruguay’s Public Transparency and Ethics Board has more than 400 pending complaints after a cyberattack on April 13 disrupted its system.
  • The board has not published the names of officials who failed to file sworn declarations because the system remains unreliable.
  • Its leaders asked lawmakers to include funding for the DeclaraBID platform and create a risk-based analysis unit for the declarations.

Uruguay’s Public Transparency and Ethics Board, known as Jutep, has more than 400 complaints waiting to be processed after a cyberattack disrupted its declaration system on April 13, 2026. The institution has also stopped publishing the officials who failed to submit their sworn declarations because the platform is not working properly.

Jutep Vice President Alfredo Asti told a Senate budget committee that 12,000 officials are required to file declarations. Although “a number are in default,” the board did not formally list them during the first or second four-month periods of the year. Asti said people call or visit every day to report that they tried but could not access the system.

a number are in default

— Alfredo AstiThe Jutep vice president described officials who had not filed their required declarations.

The platform remained out of service for two months. After technicians reinstalled it, the system continued to experience failures, Asti said. In response, Jutep authorities submitted additions to the government’s accounts bill that would allow the institution to adopt DeclaraBID, which Asti described as a more advanced, robust and efficient system.

extremely vulnerable and, honestly, quite inefficient

— Ana FerrarisThe Jutep president assessed the institution’s current declaration system.

Jutep President Ana Ferraris called the current platform “extremely vulnerable and, honestly, quite inefficient.” With a non-refundable loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, the board wants a system that does more than register declarations and can alert staff when information is missing.

Ferraris also said Jutep is working to create a declaration analysis unit. The institution currently holds more than 200,000 paper declarations, along with an unspecified number stored digitally. She said the documents must be reviewed because they serve a preventive role in combating corruption, and because the law requires the random opening of up to 5% of closed declarations each year. The planned team will develop a risk-based review methodology required by the regulations.

more than an instrument for registering sworn declarations, that is, one that can serve to alert if any data is missing

— Ana FerrarisFerraris explained what the board wants from a replacement system.
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Originally published by El País in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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