488.1. The comptroller general must meet the same requirements that this Law establishes for the executive directors of the Institute, and the following:

a) To not be electoral councilor of any of the councils of the Institute, unless leaving the position three years before the date of the day of the appointment;

b) To have a good reputation and never to have been sentenced for any intentional crime that merits a sentence of over a year in prison; but if it concerns theft, fraud, falsification, breach of trust or another that seriously damages the reputation in public opinion, this disqualifies the perpetrator from holding the office, independently of the punishment;

c) To have, at the time of his appointment, at least five years of professional experience in the control, management or auditing of resources;

d) To have held, for a minimum of f ve years on the day of the appointment, a bachelor’s degree in public accounting or in another f eld directly related to auditing activities, issued by an authority or institution legally authorized to do so, and

e) To not belong to or have belonged to, in the four years prior to the appointment, to a consultancy or audit of f ces that have lent their services to the Institute or to any political party.