Property Registry Continues Vulnerable
September 16th, 2009 | by admin |Looking for that notary that signed off on the property deed now in question? Can’t find him or her? Probability he or she is dead.
That is one of the weaknesses of the Registro that is being evaluated by the Área de Fiscalización de Servicios Públicos Generales, Ambientales y Agropecuarios de la Contraloría General de la República, where a suspended or even dead notary is able to file a property registration and without any problems.
The Contraloría is evaluating the system known as Sistema de Bienes Inmuebles which is a database system for all real property registrations.
The report indicates that the system “presents an important degree of obsolescence”.
The report, numbers DFOE-PGAA-IF-14-2009, also says that the “integrity of the data is not 100% trustworthy”, noting registrations or changes registrations in the system permitted by suspended or deceased notaries.
The Contraloría investigation concludes that the system lacks controls to block out unregistered users and suggests a new system be adopted.
The new system being recommended by the Contraloría is called “Sistema Unico de Registro” which would modernize the information systems.
Until them the records of the Registro Nacionalm continue to vulnerable.
