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The scandal of alleged corruption in the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management has been a difficult plot to unravel due to the number of names scattered around and the tentacles that still remain to be known. The director of that department, Carlos Carrillo, No names have been spared when it comes to revealing those involved in the irregularities that entail million-dollar losses in the State’s coffers.
One of them is the former mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quinterowho was accused of having political quotas during the administration of the former head of the Ungrd, Olmedo López, who left the entity when the scandal broke out and has an open investigation based on the complaint against him for alleged corruption in the purchase of at least 40 tank trucks to supply water to La Guajira that cost more than $46,000 million.
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In a recent interview with EL COLOMBIANO, Carrillo told this medium that he has “no indications to point to Quintero,” but clarified that “what I can say is that there are many friends of Quintero here.” In that interview, Carrillo already revealed the former mayor of Medellín’s discomfort with the connection of his name with the scandal.
“Even if he denies it and even if he says that I have no right to pronounce his name and wants to gag me, there is a reality and that is that there are many people here who passed through the Quintero government, also in quite high positions. The most notable case is that of Alethia Arango Gil, “She was director of Dagrd and from there she went to an undersecretary’s office and from there to another undersecretary’s office and from there she took a small plane and came to Bogotá and landed here in Olmedo’s office and was with him until last January,” the director said then. now head of the Ungrd.
Now, in a new interview he gave to the program “Nos caught the night,” Carrillo assured that Quintero is the only person who has called him to tell him not to mention him in this scandal. “What you are asking me about is that they have called me to ask me to tone it down (…), yes, Mr. Daniel Quintero asked me not to mention his name, literally. And I didn’t pay attention to him and I’m not going to pay attention to him,” he responded.
Carrillo, former councilor of Bogotá for the Democratic Pole, was appointed to the Ungrd after the departure of López amid the scandal. Although he is a recognized activist from the most radical wing of Petrism, he has marked differences with Quintero, whom he has not hesitated to classify as a “chameleon.”
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“It seems to me that Quintero’s political career has been plagued by opportunism, that he has fluctuated between the right, the left, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, the Tomato Party, the cucumber party, the avocado party, the yucca; He is a chameleon who throughout his political career has sought a space where he can get closer to power, and four years ago he made the decision to disguise himself as a progressive to try to get closer to an electorate of Medellin“But he gets elected mayor around traditional politics,” he said in an interview with EL COLOMBIANO.
Olmedo López himself has been in charge of revealing the names of those who supposedly participated in the corruption network that began due to irregularities. of a contract for the purchase of tank trucks for $40,000 million in La Guajira with alleged cost overruns to make payments to various politicians. Among the characters, the president of the House Impeachment Commission, Representative Wadith Manzur (Conservative Party), was also splashed.
