The Mayor’s Office of Santa Marta, through the Office of Disciplinary Affairs, opened an investigation against five teachers assigned to that Secretariat for apparently falsifying academic degrees to improve their curriculum.
These are the teachers, Roberto Carlos Núñez, Milena Mercado Causil, Carmen Elena Perozo Pérez, Keyla Cecilia Armenta Herrera and Juan Bautista Fernández de Castro.
This investigation is added to the one already initiated against three more teachers, among whom is María Ceballos, former president of the Magdalena Educators Union, Edumag, who would have obtained a false diploma to improve her salary scale.
By virtue of the above, the Office of Disciplinary Affairs of the District Mayor of Santa Marta issued the following directive:
1.- The Office of Disciplinary Affairs of the District Mayor of Santa Marta, through Orders issued May 22 of this year, ordered the respective disciplinary investigations against Roberto Carlos Núñez, Milena Mercado Causil, Carmen Elena Perozo Pérez, Keyla Cecilia Armenta Herrera and Juan Bautista Fernández De Castro in his capacity as teachers assigned to the Santa Marta District Education Secretariat, for the alleged falsification of an academic degree.
2.- Luis Alberto Rincón, as Head of the Office of Disciplinary Affairs, maintained that as a result of the review and verification of the academic titles of the Teaching, Teaching and Administrative Directors that the Ministry of Education has been carrying out through random audits, it was found that teachers Roberto Carlos Núñez, Milena Mercado Causil, Carmen Elena Perozo Pérez, Keyla Cecilia Armenta Herrera and Juan Bautista Fernández De Castro, allegedly could have falsified the aforementioned degrees; leading to a possible transgression of the disciplinary rules stipulated in Law 1952 of 2019 General Disciplinary Code.
3.- Finally, the Head of Disciplinary Affairs ordered the taking of relevant and pertinent evidence in order to verify the occurrence of the conduct, determine if it constitutes a disciplinary offense, or if action has been taken under the protection of an exclusion from responsibility, clarify the determining reasons, circumstances of time, manner and place in which they were committed, the damage caused to the administration and the responsibility of those investigated; with the exclusive purpose of guaranteeing Due Process and Right of Defense to those disciplined in question.
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