2024-03-01 00:22:30
The hours were practically numbered for the director of the National Risk Management Unit Olmedo López, due to the tank truck scandal and allegations of corruption that were surrounding that project with more force every day.
This Thursday the 29th, it was learned that López sent his letter of resignation from office to the President of the Republic Gustavo Petro, in which he warns that his resignation from the national government is irrevocable.
“I thank you in advance for the gesture of trust that you had with your dignity towards this servant in accompanying him in the project of transformation of the State that you preside over,” says one of the sections of the letter.
Andrés Idarraga, Olmedo López and the Prosecutor’s Office. | Photo: NO
And he noted: “I have made the decision to present irrevocable resignation from my position, so that the questions I face today do not muddy the anti-corruption banners that this political project wields.”
The situation has aroused strong criticism once morest the president. | Photo: Presidency / Video capture
“I have complete certainty and conviction that I will more than demonstrate my transparent actions, in each of the actions, perhaps my lack of experience in the public sphere was my great weakness, but not like that.”
the ability to restore rights to the victims and bring hope of life to the Wayuu children, with water in La Guajira,” the letter states.
Olmedo López resignation letter | Photo: Screenshot of resignation letter Olmedo López
It also indicates: “That water would reach the largest indigenous ethnic group in Colombia, the Wayuú, and the hope of the return of the 254 thousand peasants, subject of rights, who benefited from fertile lands to cultivate in the area of La Mojana due to the cutoff in the water flow of the Cauca River at the height of Caregato; I will always carry them in my heart.”
Thus, companies that quoted tank cars would have colluded to sell them at extra costs to the UNGRD. These are the links
The Transparency Secretariat, headed by Andrés Idárraga, will criminally denounce Olmedo López, director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), for the scandal of the purchase of tank trucks to transport water in La Guajira.
Within the evidence, the national government claims to have indications that there was collusion between the companies consulted for the market study.
These are the tank trucks acquired by the Ungrd to supply water in La Guajira. | Photo: Courtesy Ungrd
First of all, they show the supply order entered into between the UNGRD and the company Impoamericana Roger SAS. Before the subscription, it was decided to invite three suppliers to present quotes.
This work was carried out by the Disaster Management Subdirectorate, which carried out a market study with three companies to determine the average price of the vehicles required. The guests were Impoamericana Roger SAS, Luket SAS and Brand SAS
These are the tank trucks hired by the Ungrd to distribute water in La Guajira. | Photo: Courtesy Ungrd
Firstly, Sandra Liliana Brand participated as ad hoc secretary in several assemblies held by Luket SAS, in 2015 and 2016.
A worker named Ana Isabel Palacios Ortiz, as established by the Transparency Secretariat, was linked to the three companies. In Luket she is the one authorized to carry out procedures before the Pasto Chamber of Commerce, signing as ad hoc secretary in an assembly minute. For Brand, she was ad hoc secretary of several assemblies and, at Impoamericana, Roger is an accountant.
Bunker of the Attorney General’s Office | Photo: GUILLERMO TORRES
Luis Eduardo López Rosero, legal representative of Luket SAS, signed financial statements of Impoamericana Roger SAS, which were also validated by Ana Isabel Palacios. Then, Roger Pastas, legal representative of the firm that signed the contract with the UNGRD, requested correction from the Cúcuta Chamber of Commerce, saying that it was “a mistake.”
Faced with all this, the Transparency Secretariat senses: “In effect, it might have happened if the accountant worked the same format for both companies and forgot to modify the name of the representative. However, it is clear that there is a link between the two companies and their staff.”
At the same time, José Alberto Sotelo Paz served as tax auditor for both Luket SAS and Brand SAS.
In addition, Luis Eduardo López Rosero was legal representative of RML Constructora SAS and Proyectos RML SAS, a company in which Luket SAS is a shareholder. The substitute legal representative of the last company is Roger Alexander Pastas and Jorge Alberto Sotelo was also tax auditor of this in 2018.
Among the findings, the Transparency Secretariat found that companies have description codes for common economic activities, with almost identical social objects.
In addition, the Transparency Secretariat managed to establish that Sandra Liliana Brand is the wife of López Rosero, Luket’s legal representative.
“If you have five companies and you have a quote to all five companies, it is very possible that, within the framework of what might be determined as a violation of competition, prices might have been established artificially in order to be able to keep better ones. values for the acquisition, in this case, of the tank cars. In practice, the values would have risen in a quote,” he stated.
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