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May 24, 2024 – 9:43 pm
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An expert opinion doctor from the National Institute of Legal Medicine will be definitive to influence whether the former mayor of Bucaramanga, Rodolfo Hernandez is deprived of liberty or not, despite having been found guilty of the crime of undue interest in the execution of contracts.
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This was confirmed a few days after the Tenth Criminal Circuit Judge with Knowledge Functions of Bucaramanga hand down the sentence against the former senator and leader of the Anti-Corruption League, within the framework of the corruption scandal known as Vitalogic.
The Bumangué newspaper Vanguardia had access to the final medical report issued by Forensic Medicine. In the document that includes Rodolfo Hernández’s medical history since mid-2023, The Institute concluded that The former mayor is a patient with a “serious state of health” due to the terminal cancer he suffers from, For this reason, it requires special attention that must be guaranteed by the police and prison authorities, in the event that the judge determines that he must serve his sentence in a prison center.
“(…) Due to his condition as a terminal cancer patient, still undergoing chemotherapy for palliative management of liver metastases, associated with comorbidity, allow us to establish a serious state of health due to illness. To determine compatibility with life in prison, it is necessary that the judicial authority, together with “The prison authorities verify that they have the means to continue guaranteeing, according to the diagnoses, controls and continuity of treatment.”concludes Legal Medicine.
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It should be noted that this medical opinion was issued by the Institute of Legal Medicine on April 5, that is, weeks before the emergency surgery to which the former president had to undergo local in the middle of May. According to the medical document, the examination carried out on Rodolfo Hernández was carried out by order of the judge in the case, as a tool of legal support to be able to decide the sentence to be imposed.
Hernández committed the crime of undue interest in the execution of the contract cConsulting No. 096 of 2016, for $360 millioncelebrated between the Municipal Cleaning Company of Bucaramanga, Emab, and the consultant Jorge Alarcón, when he served as mayor and president of the board of directors of that entity.
The ruling will be announced on June 13 and Rodolfo Hernández himself announced that he will appeal, resorting to all judicial and civil instances.
“I am going to appeal not only to justice. I will do it, first of all, before the more than 10 million Colombians who voted for me, and also to those who did not vote for me. I am going to appeal to the good citizens who know very well the harm that politicking has done to the country, and to justice. He appealed to the justice system, the students and the academy to review the case. I appeal to them by telling them my truth,” said Hernández in a video published on his social networks.
The former mayor of Bucaramanga, who He was recently hospitalized in an ICU after a surgical procedure, He announced that this will be the first of several videos he will publish in the future to prove his innocence.
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In that sense, Hernández Suárez started his defense strategy by denying having met the former Emab advisor, Jorge Alarcón, who gave the viability to sign the million-dollar contract for the treatment of solid waste with new technologies in Bucaramanga with Vitalogic.
In addition, The former senator denied having had any relationship with Luis Andelfo Trujillo, the businessman who “turned on” the fan on the entire Vitalogic corruption scandal when Luis Carlos Hernandez did not comply with a brokerage contract for the award of the multimillion-dollar contract.
“The truth is that I never met that Mr. Alarcón that they say I wanted to benefit. Nor have I ever met Mr. Luis Andelfo Trujillo, a witness against me, in my life. That I never, ever benefited from any type of contract. That I never, ever kept a single cent of public money,” added Hernández.
With the new statement, Rodolfo Hernández himself contradicts himself in his versions, since throughout the criminal process he himself admitted knowing and even having offered accommodation in his apartment to the engineer Jorge Alarcón. Furthermore, both the Prosecutor’s Office and the other witnesses in the process have confirmed the friendly relationship that existed between the two characters.
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