The president referred to the resignations that were known in recent days at the SIC.
Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia.
President Gustavo Petro confirmed that Alexander Sánchez and Grenfieth Sierra left the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce due to the differences they had with guidelines that were aimed at raising a fine against Alberto Merlano, who was a former official of Colombia Humana and a relative of the first Lady. , Veronica Alcocer.
The president assured that the investigations by various media outlets about the departure or dismissal of officials “is a total lie.” According to Petro, “The officials did not resign, they asked them to resign.” The differences would be aimed at Merlano being taken into account as the new president of Ecopetrol.
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He defended himself and pointed out that he has no fine before the SIC, “My processes all went to the accusations commission, where due to the legal vacuum on which the SIC fine was imposed, since he was only complying with a sentence from the constitutional court, he fell.”
In relation to the fine that weighed on Alberto Merlano “it has been suspended for 10 yearsthanks to a first instance ruling that supported the legality of the garbage decree issued during my government.”
“The SIC only promoted a preventive embargo. The raid that the SIC carried out under my mandate, on the Bogotá aqueduct company, is only due to the change in the sanitation model, and the termination of Alberto Ríos’ garbage contract, “The radical change activists and friends of Germán Vargas Lleras decided to fine me, using the SIC, in retaliation for not extending a contract from Mr. Vargas Lleras’ financier, Mr. Ríos,” he added.
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