The Attorney General’s Office opened a disciplinary investigation into two former regional directors of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare -ICBF- in Nariño.
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The investigation also affects ten other former employees and officials of the entity in that department, for alleged irregularities in the registration and care of vulnerable families served by the Mi Familia Program between 2021 and 2023, a case known as ‘the families cartel false’.
Those investigated are the former regional directors Luis Carlos España Patiño and María Mercedes Arellano, as well as the then advisor to the General Directorate of the entity and who served as regional director (e), Martha Isabel Tovar Turmequé, and the former coordinator of the Financial Group, Luz Ángela Alvarado Yépez.
An investigation was also opened against Óscar Abel Hurtado Narváez, coordinator of the Legal Group, César Wilton Lloreda Alvear, Martha Lucía Pepinosa Bravo, Daira Vanesa Córdoba, Yudeimi Manco Valle, Myriam Consuelo Tovar Peña, Aura Leonila Benavides and Luz Elena Martínez Recalde.
Apparently there were possible irregularities in the selection of the Unión Temporal Mi Familia for the execution of the contract, signed for 8,399 million pesos to periodically visit 3,930 families in 16 municipalities of the department to prevent child abuse, since apparently it was not authorized and did not meet the required requirements.
Apparent disciplinary offenses are also being investigated in the signing, execution and contractual supervision, where apparently inconsistencies and falsehoods were presented in the supports presented by the UT Mi Familia regarding the care provided to families.
Regarding the supervision of the work, the Public Ministry is investigating whether the alleged falsehoods recorded in the documents that supported the visits made by the UT would have been noticed in a timely manner.
Likewise, there would have been a possible omission in the adoption of measures in the event of non-compliance by the contractor and for not reporting to the administrative and judicial authorities the possible inconsistencies or falsehoods presented and thus avoiding the detriment of the State’s assets.
In the order opening the investigation, the Attorney General’s Office sent a copy to the Attorney General’s Office to evaluate the admissibility or not of the criminal action against the legal representatives of the organizations Corporación IPS Afrosalud Colombia and Corporación Colombia en Paz, which made up the UT Mi Familia, and its fiscal auditor, Haiden Otoniel Vergara, for a possible falsehood in the documents provided for the signing of the contract with the ICBF Regional Nariño.
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