In the First Municipal Criminal Court with Guarantee Control Functions, the hearing of the security measure against Francisco Meza Altamar, mayor of the municipality of El Copey, Antonio María Andrade Zambrano; former legal representative of Sicarcol SAS and Belkis Leonor Jiménez Nieves, former secretary of Social Inclusion and Sports.
These people were charged by the Prosecutor’s Office 12 Sectional Public Administration Unit, for the alleged commission of undue interest in the execution of contracts in heterogeneous competition and conspiracy to commit aggravated crimes in successive heterogeneous competition in the year 2020. The mayor as author while Andrade Zambrano and Belkis Leonor Jiménez, as accomplices.
In this sense, this Tuesday, June 13, the judge decides whether or not to send the Mayor, his former Secretary of Social Inclusion and Sports, and the contractor to prison, in a hearing scheduled for today at 9:00 in the morning.
In the indictment of charges, the prosecuting entity stated that Francisco Manuel Meza Altamar, Mayor of the municipality, representing the territorial entity, was interested in taking advantage of his own and that of others, in the signing of 14 contracts, acquiring goods and services with legal entities with the which had closeness affecting the principle of transparency with the companies Sicarcol SAS, and Fundicoop contracts for works and supplies and provision of services, some of them for smaller amounts, all worth 4,068 million pesos and where Antonio María Andrade Zambrano and his brother were legal representatives Javier Meza Altamar.
In the case of Belkis Leonor Jiménez, she was also part of the aforementioned companies.
The prosecutor asked the Judge for an intramural measure for Francisco Meza Altamar, Mayor of the municipality and for Belkis Leonor Jiménez Nieves, former secretary of social inclusion and sports, while for Antonio María Andrade, domiciliary and the defense lawyers, on the other hand, not exclusive of the freedom or domiciliary.
