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One of the alleged officials who “managed” the NIT of a workshop to insert it in the contracting process of the 41 ambulances was summoned to testify on Monday. The call was made by identification card, because he was not at home.
“We summoned Mr. OMB by identification card. The gentleman has to appear on Monday at 2:00 p.m. to give his informative statement within this criminal process for ideological falsehood on the subject of ambulances. If he does not show up, we are going to request the arrest warrant,” lawyer Richard Alejo informed Page Seven Digital.
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The contract for the 41 ambulances was signed on November 26, 2021, but eight days earlier, on November 18, two alleged officials from the Government of Potosí appeared at the Zegarra Motors workshop to present the owner with “a work proposal with the Government”, which was related to the maintenance of the 41 ambulances, which – they stressed – had already been acquired and were on their way to Bolivia.
The two alleged representatives, OMB and V. NN, showed up at the venue at 8:30, but since the owner was not there, they left and only one of them returned.
The alleged official who returned to the workshop asked the owner for his Tax Identification Number (NIT), his operating license, Fundempresa registration and his identity card to sign the corresponding contract.
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The owner gave him simple photocopies of the documents and also sent them, via WhatsApp, to the numbers of OMB and of V. NN himself. However, they no longer returned to the workshop, despite indicating that they would return in the afternoon.
In the minute of the administrative contract GADP CD and E No. 215/2021, the NIT of the mechanical workshop appears in the section “Documents Integrating the Contract”. That is why the owner filed a complaint against Estefals Logistics, the company that was awarded the acquisition of the 41 ambulances, for the alleged commission of the crime of ideological falsehood.
