“First, apologize to Mr. President.” In this way, and in a 57-second video, the former director of the National Risk and Disaster Management Unit (INGRD), Olmedo López expressed his regret for the events surrounding the controversial conclusion of the contract for the purchase of 40 tank cars.
López, who this Tuesday ratified before the Attorney General’s Office his desire to collaborate with the investigation for this million-dollar contract, described what was done as “regrettable” and “deplorable.” presented during his administration at the UNGRD.
“We have prayed, we have been at God’s side a lot, he will accompany us in this truth, the truth that each and every Colombian deserves. So that all of us who were involved in this unfortunate event can repair the damage caused to the country,” he stated. Olmedo López in the recording.
The former official, who is negotiating a principle of opportunity, assured that they acted contrary to the postulates against corruption for which the President Gustavo Petro throughout his political career. “Another path is the one that the President has shown us in his years of struggle in Colombia and not only him but all those who have fought for transparency in Colombia.”
Likewise, in another video, the former director of the UNGRD asked the Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo that guarantees the security and protection for the life of your nuclear family. Olmedo assured that he is willing to reveal the entire truth when summoned to appear.
“From me the Attorney General’s Office and the honorable Court can wait only for the truth and only the truth of what we did, of this unfortunate fact, that it be known in Colombia in an open and transparent manner from the truth,” he stated.
For this Wednesday the interrogation of Sneyder Pinilla Álvarez, former deputy director of disasters at the Unit, who already presented his collaboration matrix pointing out the presidents of the Senate, Iván Name, and of the House of Representatives, Andrés Calle; as well as UNGRD contractors; the former director of the Unit, Olmedo López; former deputy director Víctor Andrés Meza; and deputy director Luis Carlos Barreto Gantiva.
This Tuesday, Sneyder Pinilla, After receiving his security plan from the Attorney General’s Office, he announced that he remains firm in his commitment to provide information as well as names of political leaders, contractors and officials of the current Government.
“Tomorrow in the interrogation we have we will deliver the different evidence. “I cannot speak more about the issues of the process because a lot of information has already been leaked and the idea is to officially deliver all the information we have about the case tomorrow,” Pinilla stated in a short statement to the press at a hotel in the north of Bogotá and in which he was accompanied by his lawyer, Luis Gustavo Moreno.
Pinilla already revealed in an exclusive interview with SEMANA that he personally gave three billion pesos to the president of the Senate, Iván Name and another billion pesos to the president of the Chamber, Andrés Calle.
