The magistrates of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca annulled the ruling issued at the time by the District Comptroller’s Office, in which the current presidential candidate Gustavo Petro Urrego was fiscally sentenced for making the decision to reduce the rates of the Integrated Public Transportation System (SITP).
This reduction was made effective by Gustavo Petro when he served as Mayor of Bogotá in 2012.
This first-instance decision of the Court leaves without legal effect the sanction of the District Comptroller’s Office issued on June 27, 2016, which declared Petro Urrego fiscally responsible, considering that incurred a loss of assets and condemned him to pay jointly and severally an amount greater than 217 billion pesos due to reductions in Transmilenio fares.
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In response to the reestablishment of rights in favor of the presidential candidate, it was ordered to annul “solely and exclusively the sentence of fiscal responsibility imposed on Mr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, and to annul his inclusion in the bulletin of fiscal responsible of the Comptroller General’s Office of the Republic and in the registry of disabilities of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation or Failing that, any record where the plaintiff Petro Urrego appears as fiscally responsible.”
The ruling that favors Gustavo Petro, was issued by the magistrates of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca, Moisés Rodrigo Mazabel Pinzón, Óscar Armando Dimaté Cárdenas and César Giovanni Chaparro Rincón.
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In view of the fact that it is a decision of first instance, the District Comptroller has the door open to establish legal resources to seek to appeal this decision of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca.
