He Superior Court of Valledupar, In a second instance ruling, he revoked the conviction and acquitted five former public officials of the Cesar Governorate, who had been convicted of the crimes of embezzlement due to appropriation and ideological falsehood in a public document.
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Those linked to the process were Clara Inés Araujo Castillo, Alfredo Yesid Pérez Angarita, Carlos Andrés Hinojosa García, Simón Martínez Ubarnez and María Elisa Ayala Franco; all at a penalty 64 months in prisonequivalent to 5 years.
However, the defense appealed the first instance conviction, therefore the Court decreed the closure of the investigation because the statute of limitations for the criminal action had expired with respect to the aforementioned crimes.
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Therefore, he revoked the sentence that had been imposed and ordered their immediate release since they were under house arrest.
The investigated case was registered in June 2008, after the signing of a contract between the Government of Cesar and the legal representative of a commercial establishment, where the object was the provision of accommodation and food services for DAS officials, for a value of $13,000,000 million, who would carry out tasks inherent to their positions during the celebration of the Vallenato Festival in Valledupar.
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The Prosecutor’s Office was able to show that the contractual relationship was structured and settled without the need for support from the officials, because on the date of signing the contract there was no event that required the displacement of the servers.
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