The Attorney General’s Office decided to formulate a statement of charges against Andrés René Chaves Fernándezwho served as manager in charge of the National Printing Office, for alleged irregularities in the contract signed with Colombia Migration for the printing of immigration cards.
According to the disciplinary investigation, the National Printing Office, at that time, “lacked the technical capacity and technological infrastructure essential for the production of immigration cards under the conditions required by the contracting entity.”, which motivated the former manager in charge to proceed to subcontract all of the contract obligations to third parties..
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The control entity indicated that the contract between Migración Colombia and Imprenta Nacional was a cause for alert from its early stages, due to possible inconsistencies.
Attorney General’s Office
The charges
The Third Delegate Attorney General’s Office for Contracting concluded that there were sufficient elements to charge Chaves Fernández, considering that “It was not ensured that the company in charge had the technical capacity and technological infrastructure necessary to produce the immigration cards under the required technical conditions.”.
The statement of objections qualifies the former director’s conduct as a serious offense with very serious fault, within the framework of the disciplinary regime applicable to public servants.
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In parallel, the Attorney General’s Office decided to archive the investigation against Carlos Fernando García (general director of Migration Colombia), Rigoberto Boy Runner (general secretary) and Carlos Julio Ávila (head of the Legal Office of Migration Colombia), considering that “sufficient elements were not established to impute disciplinary responsibility to them”.
National Printing Office
Scope of the contract
The investigation indicates that the inter-administrative contract between Migración Colombia and the National Printing Office involved the production and supply of identification documents for foreign citizens in the country.
The essential problem lies in the fact that the central tasks of the contract (including production and delivery of documents) were left in the hands of third parties, without evidence of prior technical evaluation of the capacity of the National Printing Office to assume the commitment from the beginning.
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