In a second instance ruling, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed on Tuesday, September 2, the sanction of dismissal and disability for 10 years to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Álvaro Leyva Durán, for ignoring the principles of state contracting by declaring the public tender for the manufacture and issuance of passports.
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He Public Ministry ratified that the decision made at the time the then Foreign Minister lacked legal basis and did not have the purpose of safeguarding the duty of objective selectionto which I was forced.
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The control body ratified that the determination adopted by the former minister was based on the fact that the process only presented a single offeror, which was already disabled to declare the public tender deserted, given that it met all the requirements defined by the entity in the conditions of conditions.
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In that sense, The Attorney General’s Office confirmed that Leyva Durán did not know with its performance the principles of transparency, economy and responsibility that regulate state contracting, So he described his disciplinary offense in a definitive way as very serious committed as intent.
The ruling signed by the Attorney General of the Nation is of the second instance and does not admit any resource.
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