Fernando Tonos refrains from advising Senator Javier Aponte Dalmau after controversy over his recruitment

Popular Senator Javier Aponte Dalmau confirmed this morning that former representative and ex-convict Fernando Tonos will not work in his office as a legislative adviser after announcing yesterday that he had a hiring of $ 6,000 a month.

Tonos was convicted of corruption in 1995 over a ghost employee scheme.

Aponte Dalmau initially indicated that Tonos would work as an employee of his office, but today clarified that he was supposed to be a contractor.

He told me that under those circumstances he is not willing to create a problem for me or the president or the senate. I had the illusion of returning to the Legislative Assembly to advise me on the parliamentary process, but not like that “Aponte Dalmau said The new day.

The popular senator said he spoke to Senate President José Luis Dalmau yesterday about Tonos’ role in his office. Aponte Dalmau said the senatorial president labeled the response to Tonos’ return “unfair”.

“Not that I endorse it… this person was rehabilitated and got a job in the community. Senator José Vargas Vidot recognizes it himself, ”said Aponte Dalmau, when he classified the reaction of citizens around the figure of Tonos as“ diverse ”.

“There are people who know him and know what he can continue to contribute and the experience he has, and there are those who understand that this was… in my opinion unfair,” he said.

Aponte Dalmau pointed out that Tonos’ planned recruitment was consulted with the text of the anti-corruption code.