The congressmen would have received contracts from the UNGRD in exchange for approvals of amounts for the Nation.
Hearing Room of the Supreme Court of Justice.
A key week begins in the Supreme Court of Justice, since vseveral congressmen who allegedly received benefits with UNGRD contracts in exchange for legislative management to approve credits to the Nationthey will have to deliver their version of the events and clarify the allegationss that the former advisor, María Alejandra Benavides, made to the Prosecutor’s Office.
And as revealed by Noticias RCNthe Supreme Court is also advancing in the investigations of the case and has a list of the congressmen who are mentioned in the alleged irregularities, Well, according to María Alejandra Benavides, the Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, ordered him to negotiate with those congressmen who were members of the Public Credit Commission so that they would approve various amounts in exchange for three contracts with the UNGRD for $92,000 million.
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According to data from the Supreme Court, The meetings that former advisor Benavides spoke about with the Prosecutor’s Office coincide with the dates that they already have on the radar and they occurred on November 28 and December 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2023 in order to establish a scheme for purchasing congressmen.
Specifically, the former advisor, who was the right hand of the Minister of Finance, indicated that in one of those meetings he gave several contacts to Sneyder Pinilla of the people to whom the resources of the projects in compensation had to be directed. so that the congressmen approved the Government’s claims.
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These are the contacts of engineer Harry Bejarano for the Cotorra project, Camilo Díaz with whom he would coordinate matters related to the municipality of Saravena and Juan Carlos Torres, mayor of Salado with respect to the Municipality of Carmen de Bolívar, RCN News anticipated.
This week, according to the schedule of the Supreme Court of Justice, they will appear like this: this Monday (Karen Manrique), Tuesday the 2nd (Wadith Manzur), Wednesday the 4th (Liliana Bitar), Monday the 9th (Julián Peinado), Tuesday the 10th (Juan Pablo Gallo), Wednesday the 11th (former congressman Juan Diego Muñoz).
