Bruno Defelippe and Soledad N{uñez.
Bruno Defelippe, candidate for senator for the Coalition, and his group of friends distributed along with him in some NGOs, among them the prosperous publicists of the last presidential campaign who amassed millions through Itaipu and Yacyretá. Another very close friend is in a firm that was awarded a preliminary project of US$ 33,000 for bike lanes, while the husband of the candidate for vice president Soledad Núñez monopolizes consultancies to entrepreneurs benefited through Conacyt, etc.
Source: By Rossana Escobar M. [email protected]
Bruno Defelippe, candidate for the Senate for the National Concertation, the same plate for which his wife Soledad Núñez, candidate for the Vice Presidency, is bidding, coincidentally together with select friends distributed in some NGOs, discovered the key to the business consisting of advertising consultancies, entrepreneurship , technology, and thus they won juicy awards or contracts.
Conacyt, Mitic, the Ministry of Women became profitable clients of social projects carried out through the triangulation of multilateral organizations.
Defelippe concentrates at least five projects financed through the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) with money that somehow touches the pocket of taxpayers, since some come from loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that we will all end up paying . (See infographic).
To incubate companies, Conacyt awarded G. 648 million in 2021, but the institution confirmed that it has already disbursed G. 583 million in favor. In addition, Defelippe, through his company Koga SA, provides consulting services in other projects of (EBTs), technology-based companies, two of which have partners in other NGOs (Alma Cívica and Sistema B).
Agendia is one of the EBTs projects, to which Diego Sosa Maciel, co-founder of Alma Cívica, is linked, the NGO created by Soledad Núñez and her husband Bruno Defelippe that today seeks to control elections and is managed by loyalists of the couple.
Redciclaje is another EBTs financed by Conacyt in which Guillermo Esteban Russo, an associate of the NGO Sistema B, promoted by Defelippe, jumps as part of the beneficiary team. In this project, Koga also invoices for consultancy.
With Koga, Defelippe is one of the IDB’s favorite consultants and does not miss out on social projects in the public sector. A practical way to avoid a contest through Public Procurement and win not inconsiderable figures like the digital solutions contest that he organized in Ciudad Mujer for US $ 40,000 in a pandemic year.
Koga brings together other select friends who are also highly favored with state mega-contracts that bypass public contracts. Camilo Guanes and Rodrigo Weiberlen, Defelippe’s partners in Koga, join him in another non-governmental organization; the Association of Entrepreneurs of Paraguay (Asepy), which constitutes the political arm with the aim of promoting funds for entrepreneurship, essential for consultancies that may be generated in the process.
Guanes and Weiberlen with Oniria took some G. 2,352 million from Itaipu for “specialized consultancy in creative development of communication, visual and related materials”, without bidding. This award was widely criticized because the firm was the marketing agency for President Mario Abdo Benítez’s proselytizing campaign, as well as being one of the IDB’s favorite consultants in the Digital Agenda project.
