The accountant who worked with Epa Colombia, said that she did a project to organize the company because the keratin entrepreneur managed the business “like a store” despite the fact that more than 6,000 million pesos came in, “she is very suspicious of the money, handled a lot of cash.
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Epa Colombia is involved in a new controversy, after the statements of who was its accountant and who, according to the evidence shown in an interview, has threatened, harassed, and even apparently falsely accused, of having stolen $2 billion pesos.
The accountant Yenny Saldarriaga, during the interview in Semana.
Epa Colombia in its keratin company.
Regarding the versions that Daneidi Barrera Rojas launders money or has some illicit business camouflaged in her prosperous Epa Keratin company, Yenny Saldarriaga said that it is up to the competent authorities to clarify it.
In an interview with the magazine Semana, he did say that this company that was born from an undertaking, did handle a high volume of money.
He also said that, “Epa is a commercial machine, but too impressionable and listens to people who should listen.”
EPA’s company
She said that she met Epa Colombia through a person, who contacted them to help the businesswoman organize herself because she was not properly established and a hairdresser in Bogotá had been closed for non-payment of taxes, among others, by Sayco Acinpro.
The organization according to the initial diagnosis, had to be done from civil, criminal, commercial legal to everything labor, even to the industrial security of the company.
The influencer billing more than 2,000 million pesos, with hairdressers, the factory and keratin warehouses, still did not have legal billing.
Saldarriaga made the paperwork for them to do the electronic invoicing.
“EPA is a commercial machine, but it is too impressionable and listens to people it should listen to”: Accountant Yenny Saldarriaga.
After the first contacts and procedures, the accountant with her work team decided to make a project, present it and it consisted of creating a mother company to group all the businesses there, «she had all the power; her to authorize or not any procedure and the handling of all the money ».
The legal representative is, however, a relative of the woman from Bogotá.
And it is that Saldarriaga, explained to Semana that Epa Colombia, “is very suspicious because he said that everyone stole it.”
He also pointed out that while he was at the service of the influencer, there was no tax evasion.
He clarified that the high sums he had to pay last year were due to the disorder that existed in the company and that not everything had been formalized.
In fact, during the consultancy of the Saldarriaga accounting office, located in Medellín, “we formalized workers.”
By that time, they had organized about 100 workers, some of them as direct employees.
The episode of the ‘kidnapping’ of a collaborator
At the headquarters of a Keratinas Epa warehouse in Bochica, Barrera Rojas detained a collaborator from the accounting company for several hours, because supposedly no money appeared.
It happened on July 30, 2021.
Epa’s former accountant was in Medellin and faced with this situation, she decided to take a flight to Bogota.
“She began to threaten me”, even in audios that the Prosecutor’s Office already has and are circulating on networks, the ‘queen’ of keratins in Colombia, told her not to steal from her, not to affect her company, to think about her daughter.
However, regarding that episode of the collaborator’s retention, the reasons and what happened that day remain unclear.
The issue is also a matter of investigation that is already handled by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The $2 billion mess
What the accountant did clarify is that the 2,000 million pesos that Epa Colombia assured that they stole from her, “they were not lost, there are records that they were delivered to her and she later explained what she had spent them on, among other things.” things, pay suppliers.
The certificate of delivery of the $2 billion.
The delivery certificate was signed by a trusted person designated by the keratin businesswoman herself. The money was in the bank and at his disposal.
“The only thing she did with me was pay me for my services”explained the professional.
He also said that one day Epa “in gratitude” gave him 20 million pesos, so that he could buy me a car, but my car was almost new and I preferred to distribute it among my team.
In other words, the keratin company did not give Saldarriaga any car or truck.
Until now, Epa Colombia has not commented on these statements in which the accountant did not reveal many details due to a confidentiality agreement.
parts of the confidentiality agreement signed between Epa and the accountant.
In addition, due to its professional secrecy, “that only a judge can decide whether information can be revealed or not.”
The audios of threats to the accountant.
“You can’t try to beat someone who has a lot of followers (on networks) and who has a mafia behind,” is the audio from Epa to the accountants.
The accountant said that as a result of “all this nightmare”, she almost lost her baby, she is pregnant, her teenage daughter had to leave school due to bullying, she has had to change her house, her office.
This was the interview Saldarriaga in the magazine Semana:
Interview: former accountant of Epa Colombia is revealed EXCLUSIVELY for SEMANA. #WeekNews https://t.co/JV1C1T9xc3
– Week Magazine (@RevistaSemana) March 26, 2022
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