Laura Sarabia, director of the Administrative Division of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre) and right-hand guy of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, denied this Wednesday “main a plot” when discussed through a former senior executive reliable accused in a corruption case within the Nationwide Unit for Crisis Possibility Control (UNGRD).
“Main a plot: complying with all of the judicial requests that the government have made to me as director of DAPRE to ship knowledge”Sarabia wrote on his X account.
This after former presidential marketing consultant for the Areas Sandra Ortiz, the highest-ranking executive reliable charged with this corruption scandal, stated in a listening to nowadays that “crucial girl within the Presidency” who’s “along side the president “is at the back of a plot in opposition to him.
Even if Ortiz did indirectly point out Laura Sarabia as accountable, he did say her title at any other level in his observation when he indicated that she used to be conscious about the corruption episode and notified Petro’s right-hand guy.
In that sense, Ortiz alleged that he warned Sarabia that there could be “10 extra tank vehicles” concerned in relation to embezzlement of finances within the acquire of cars to ship water to deprived populations in Los angeles Guajira (excessive north of Colombia).
“My access into the DAPRE used to be on February 28, 2024, and one in every of my first acts, agreed upon with the president, used to be to invite the director of the UNGRD to surrender and inform him that he will have to droop all hiring, messages that seem within the chat within the month of February. I’ve finished my activity as a public reliable however I keep in mind that whoever makes them imagines them”Sarabia added on this regard.
A pass judgement on from Bogotá issued preventive detention for Ortiz taking into account that “the evidentiary parts supplied through the Prosecutor’s Workplace, in dialogue with the ones of the protection, do be successful and fortify this measure of making sure preventive detention in a jail status quo.”
On November 29, the Colombian Prosecutor’s Workplace charged Ortiz with the crimes of trafficking within the affect of a public servant and cash laundering.
Corruption within the UNGRD
The scandal has to do with the embezzlement of 46.8 billion pesos (just a little greater than 10.5 million bucks) from the UNGRD within the acquire of 40 tanker vehicles to carry water to cities within the division of Los angeles Guajira (within the Caribbean) via contracts that didn’t meet technical or felony necessities, ensuing within the lack of cash.
The heads of the big community of corruption are allegedly Olmedo López and Sneyder Pinillawhom the Colombian president appointed as director and deputy director of the Nationwide Unit for Crisis Possibility Control (UNGRD), respectively.
The ones named additionally come with the Minister of Finance till a couple of weeks in the past, Ricardo Bonilla, who resigned from the location on the request of President Petro, and likewise Carlos Ramón González, who resigned ultimate July from the Nationwide Intelligence Directorate (DNI), as regards to the president.
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