He Former Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of Colombia (Danpre) Carlos Ramón Gonzálezinvolved in the largest corruption scandal of President Gustavo Petro’s government And with a current arrest warrant since July, he renewed his residence in Nicaragua with the help of the Executive, the local news channel RCN denounced on Thursday.
After knowing the case, Petro and former chancellor Laura Sarabia denied that the government had requested some type of privilege for González, who was also head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI) of the current executive.
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News RCN published an image of the Nicaraguan residence card of González, former head of the Green Alliance Party, and also a letter that the Colombian embassy supposedly sent in Managua asking for help for “Request the residence renewal letter“Of the former official.
“In relation to the resident status of Mr. Carlos Ramón González, who has been in Nicaragua since last November 5, 2024 and that since that date he has not left the country (…) we request the support of the Ministry of Migration and Foreigners to regularize the immigration state, the residence of fellow González is renewed“, says the document.
Nicaraguan residence card by Carlos Ramón González
The television news also published a letter from the Ministry of Interior of Nicaragua that indicates the steps to follow for González to renew the document.
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“The Colombian Government has not asked any country for some type of privilege for Carlos Ramón González“Petro said in X.
In the same social network, former chancellor Sarabia said he did not participate or received “any information about residence procedures by the Embassy in Nicaragua, a circumstance that is duly registered in the entity’s traceability“
González and the investigation against him
González is involved in the corruption scandal of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD)a public entity attached to the DAPRE in charge of directing and coordinating disaster risk management in the country.
On July 3, the Superior Court of Bogotá He issued an arrest warrant against the former director of the 66 -year -old, and also ordered his “preventive detention in prison establishment for bribery crimes for giving or offering and peculation for appropriation in favor of third parties.”
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González is accused by the Prosecutor’s Office to order the payment of bribes to congressmen with Money from UNGRD in exchange for government support in the Legislative.
UNRGRD – National Unit for Disaster Risk Management
As revealed in May 2024 ExSubdirector for Disaster Management of UNGRD Sneyder Pinillamoney from that entity was used in 2023 to pay millionaires to then Presidents of the Senate, Iván Name, and the House of Representatives, Andrés Callewho are detained in this case.
That money supposedly deviated from the assigned for the Purchase of 40 tank trucks to supply water from the department of La Guajiraa project in which the resources were embezzled because also the vehicles acquired did not meet the technical conditions, among other failures.
In one of the hearings of the case, the delegated prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice, Andrea MuñozHe said that the former presidential council for the Sandra Ortiz regions, also involved in the corruption plot, received orders from González as his direct boss by being director of the DaPre, to allegedly deliver the bribes to the congressmen Name and Calle.
González, who like Petro militated in the M-19 guerrillas and then entered the policy as a member of the Alianza Verde party, arrived at the Government in April 2023, when the president appointed him director of the DaPre, department that is in charge of the operation of the presidency.
EFE
