Luis Eduardo Llinás will leave the direction of the Uiaf and the Dian

With the issuance of Decree 1118 of 2025the Casa de Nariño accepted the resignation of Luis Eduardo Llinás Chica, current director of the Special Administrative Unit of Information and Financial Analysis (Uiaf).

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The document, signed on October 24, also establishes that Jorge Arturo Lemus Montañez, current director of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI) and one of President Gustavo Petro’s most trusted people, will assume this position under the figure of commission.

Llinás’s departure from this body attached to the Ministry of Finance adds to his retirement as director in charge of the National Tax and Customs Directorate (Dian). Although this has not been officially confirmed, Sources told Portafolio that the relief would occur for not reaching tax collection goals. established for the year.

In his replacement, the Deputy General Minister of Finance, Carlos Emilio Betancourt Galeano, would temporarily take over. who was in charge of receiving the address after the presidential order.

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With this movement, Dian adds its fourth director so far in the current government, which reflects a worrying lack of institutional continuity in one of the key entities for the country’s fiscal stability.

This change of ‘chips’ occurs within the framework of the decision of the United States government to include President Petro on the list of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) of the Treasury Department, also known as the ‘Clinton list’.

After the news was made known, the Uiaf, through a statement, rejected the inclusion of the president in that list.

“Considers a violation of due process, ignoring the political career of President Gustavo Petro as a public servant and the results of his administration in the fight against corruption, money laundering, its source crimes, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” indicates the text.

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