Pereira
For facts related to cost overruns in a contract for the purchase of machinery, they were prosecuted Jaime Mauricio Restrepo Londono, former Secretary of Infrastructure of the Mayor’s Office of Pereira, period 2016 – 2017; German Garcia Corrales, who was a contractor for the same office in 2017; in addition to Óscar Iván Cardona Montoya, José Antonio Mejía Núñez and Andrés Leonardo Vélez Ríoswho worked at that time for different private sector companies.
Apparently, these men would be involved in alleged irregularities committed in a contract for the acquisition of machinery with the aim of improving the technical capacity, equipment and vehicle fleet of Pereira, for which the services of the company represented by Óscar Iván Cardona Montoya would have been hired.
The main inconsistency is that, according to the investigation carried out by a prosecutor from the Crimes Against the Public Administration Unit of the Risaralda Sectional Prosecutor’s Office, Jaime Mauricio Restrepo and Germán García, they would have ordered José Antonio Mejía and Andrés Leonardo Vélez, quote three dump trucks and a compactor cylinder for values higher than those in the market in order to alter the value of the abbreviated selection process where the agreed value would be 1,593 million pesos.
The technical analyzes would show that the cost overruns exceeded 554 million pesos, resources that were part of the Mayor’s budget. Furthermore, it would be a process with a single proponent.
Although they did not accept charges, for these events those investigated were charged, according to their degree of responsibility, for the crimes of agreements restricting competition, embezzlement by appropriation, contract without compliance with legal requirements, procedural fraud and falsification of a private document.
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