“I apologize to the president”: Olmedo López after corruption scandal

This became known after Semana magazine revealed some audios in which Snyder Pinillawho was the Deputy Director of Disaster Management under the López administration, allegedly agreeing to have delivered the money to two congressmen.

On the other hand, President Gustavo Petro, in the middle of a speech presented on May 6, once again assured that this corruption scandal would be part of a soft coup: “President, he did not say officials, president, he bought congressmen with public money to approve the reform. “That is false, and it has to do with a coup strategy.”

Comptroller’s Office seizes the assets of Olmedo López and Sneyder Pinilla

The Comptroller General of the Republic, in the midst of the corruption scandal that is unfolding after the audios of Sneyder Pinilla became known, former deputy director of Disaster Management at UNGRDdecided to seize all the assets of two of those involved.

Is about Olmedo López, Former Director of the Risk Management Unit, and Sneyder Pinilla, former deputy director of Disaster Management of the same entity. This action is taken due to the case of the tank trucks that were purchased to bring water to the department of La Guajira.

The Comptroller’s Office also announced that a fiscal responsibility process was also opened aimed at these two characters. This decision was made by the entity in the afternoon hours of Monday May 6th.

It should be noted that, although it was estimated that between the properties of both there could be found an approximate asset of 47 billion pesos, the Comptroller’s Office could not make the order effective, since, at the time of filing it, Neither of the two characters had properties in their name.

Nevertheless, The Comptroller’s Office managed to seize five bank accountsincluding that of the company Impoamericana Rogers, which was in charge of the sale of the 40 tank cars.