26-06-2025
Chile Catches Thousands of Workers Holidaying at State's Expense
Using tactics that could have won her a prize for investigative journalism, Chile's unassuming comptroller general is shaking up the nation's sclerotic public sector in her war on waste.
By cross-referencing travel records and medical leave certificates, Dorothy Perez discovered that more than 25,000 state employees had gone abroad in the past two years, while supposedly in their sick beds. Some took leave in order to work on their own businesses, others to travel around Europe, while others completed studies abroad.
