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The presidential advisor for the Regions, Sandra Ortiz, This Friday he denied his responsibility in the acts of alleged corruption in the National Risk Management Unit (Ungrd) what the former deputy director denounced Sneyder Pinilla, who accused her of being an intermediary for pay millionaire bribes for the processing of the reforms of Gustavo Petro’s government.
By rejecting what he described as “slanderous statements”the official assured that With “false accusations” an attempt is made to divert attention from those truly involved. in the acts of corruption that surrounded the acquisition of tank cars in La Guajira.
Ortiz, who said that at the time will present the respective judicial actions to protect your honordefended that during years of public and private life has worked to build his good name “step by step with effort, hhonesty, transparency and love to the convictions of service and having a better country.”
In that sense, he claimed that Pinilla intends to judicially and politically instrumentalize the Prosecutor’s Office in search of a beginning of opportunity, “trying with false accusations divert attention from those truly involved in the events, and obtain benefits in their criminal proceedings.”
He even warned that behind the complaints there are also interests for “undermining the work” that has been carried out by the National Government under the leadership of President Gustavo Petro.
This Friday, Sneyder Pinilla, former deputy director of Disaster Management of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd), turned on the fan and assured that he supposedly paid millionaire bribes to both Calle and the president of the Senate, Iván Name.
According to the former official, the purpose of the payments was promote the approval of the social reforms of the National Government in Congress. Therefore, he spoke of cash payments, delivered in suitcases, between September and October 2023 of supposedly $3,000 million for Name and $1,000 million for Calle.
In his accusation, the former deputy director of the Ungrd assured that the alleged corruption conspiracy also involved director of the Ungrd at that time, Olmedo López; he Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco; and the advisor for the Regions, Sandra Ortiz.
Due to the serious accusations, Senior officials of the House of Nariño asked for the counselor’s resignation. Gustavo Bolívar, director of the Department of Social Prosperity (DPS), assured that “You must distance yourself from the Government while the Prosecutor’s Office determines whether the serious accusation is true.”
