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Before the Attorney General’s Office, the former director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd), Olmedo López, filed the request for the principle of opportunity within the investigation which is due to alleged acts of corruption within the entity.
In this case, the former official requested the benefit in exchange for providing privileged information about the corruption network. and reveal names of those linked to the disaster at the Ungrd.
The facts have to do with the contracts for the purchase of tank cars destined for La Guajira. Millionaire sums of money were supposedly taken from these contracts to bribe the presidents of Congress and that these, in turn, They will support the reforms of the Executive.
In the document filed this Monday in the Prosecutor’s Office, the former director requests that he be granted security guarantees for him and his family, since apparently the information in his possession leaves him in a vulnerable scenario. Likewise, he asks that, in exchange for collaboration, he be granted full immunity and thus avoid get to jail.
This corruption case It is the largest, so far, in Gustavo Petro’s Government. Since last Friday, when Sneyder Pinilla, former deputy director of the Ungrdturned on the fan and exposed government officials in the alleged illegal activities, a true political tidal wave was unleashed that already cost the regional advisor, Sandra Ortiz, her job.
And according to Pinilla, the now former counselor, she was in charge of receiving the money to pay the bribes. $3 billion to Iván Name (Green Alliance), president of the Senate, and $1,000 million Andrés Calle (Liberal Party), president of the Chamber. Both have denied the information and appealed to his innocence.
