Diego Guevara, former Government Finance Minister of Gustavo Petro, I would be related to The alleged purchase of congressmen of the Public Credit Commission so that “The nation’s loans will approve with international banks”
(See: Bonilla’s fall).
This was revealed by the magazine Week, This Saturday, April 12, 2025. The media announced some alleged chats in which Guevara talks to María Alejandra Benavides, exassora of the former Minister of Finance Ricardo Bonilla, about Possible contracts in the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) to convince parliamentarians.
The conversations would have occurred when Guevara was the vice minister of Bonilla.
The chats between Guevara and Benavides would have occurred just after their boss, then Minister Bonilla, “He gave them the order to meet with the members of the Interparliamentary Commission with the promise of ‘moving’ the contracts that were waiting for the UNGRD and that would bring with them political support“, he says Week.
Ricardo Bonilla.
EFE
“On December 4, 2023, Benavides asked Bonilla if she and Guevara could attend the congressmen of the Public Credit Commission to close the corrupt agreement. The former minister’s response was decisive: ‘Yes, he advances that.’ The pieces of this puzzle fit: after the order, the congressmen’s votes came to ask from the Boca from the government“The magazine added.
(See: The message with which Petro asked Ricardo Bonilla’s resignation as a minhacienda).
On December 5, according to the aforementioned media, Benavides would have told Guevara the plan to convince congressmen. He told him that they would say to Liliana Bitar, Wadith Manzur and Julián Peinado that they were the only ones to “Those who have left them (the contracts)“To support them and to the rest of the members of the Public Credit Commission,”that is the two of Paz and Juan Diego Muñoz, and Juan Pablo Gallo, who has just arrived and does not know very well how it works“They would tell you the same after.
Guevara’s answer To this strategy it would have been: “It sounds to me.”
Seven days later, on December 12, “The congressmen of the Public Credit Commission gave the ‘OK’ to several loans requested by the Ministry of Finance, which added 2.5 billion pesos with the German Development Bank, the Central American Bank for Integration and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF)“He recalled Week.
These appointed legislators are being investigated by the Supreme Court, He recalled the magazine.
(See: The versions of the two ex -majas of the minhacienda on the case of the UNGRD).
The case of corruption in the UNGRD
The case of corruption in the UNGRD in which the name of Diego Guevara now appears when it was revealed, in February 2024, The embezzlement of 46.8 billion pesos in the purchase of 40 tank trucks to bring drinking water to desert areas of the Caribbean Department of La Guajira.
To this is added the revelation that money from that entity, apparently, was used to pay bribes to the former president’s presidents, Iván Name (Green Alliance), and the House of Representatives, Andrés Calle (Liberal Party), and other congressmen in exchange for the support in Congress for the social reforms proposed by Petro.
(See: This has been the work of the Petro Government Finance Ministers).
The former director of UNGRD Olmedo López, appointed by President Gustavo Petro, and the former Disaster Management director of the UNGRD Sneyder Pinilla, The main cases of the case have involved members of the Government, including that of former Minister Bonilla, to be aware of everything that was happening.
The exassora María Alejandra Benavides already reiterated Bonilla was aware of what was happening in this network of corruption and commented that “He used me, he used the fact of being the Minister of Finance, who did not care about the cost he had to pay. That needed it in”
UNRGRD – National Unit for Disaster Risk Management
UNGRD
In the case of Guevara, the former official came to lead the Ministry of Finance in December 2024 and He left the wallet in March 2025.
The reasons behind the decision, according to Portafolio Fuentes del Government at the time, would be related to differences between Petro and Guevara. The latter would have refused to make budget decisions by decree related to possible additions.
On the other hand, there was talk of The president’s nonconformity with the payment commitments that were made from the Treasury with the energy companies to catch up with the subsidies, in compliance with a court order. For Guevara, this was imperative, since, if breached, there would be legal consequences that he prefers to avoid.
The current Minister of Finance is Germán Ávila.
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