This Friday, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation made the decision to suspend the president of the SAE, Daniel Rojas Medellín, for three months, within the investigation that was opened for him in the Triple A case.
This is the first suspension ordered by the Public Ministry against a government official of President Gustavo Petro. This investigation was also opened to Sebastián Caballero, SAE’s legal vice president; Jairo Alonso Bautista, Vice President of Companies of the entity, and Dagoberto Quiroga Collazos, Superintendent of Residential Public Services.
According to the entity, led by attorney Margarita Cabello, there may be a possible disciplinary offense committed by public servants, “derived from the alleged breach of the purchase and sale contract of the share package corresponding to 82.16 percent of the subscribed shares of Triple A SA ESP.” , reported the entity.
Minutes after the announcement, President Daniel Rojas posted a message on his Twitter account saying that “our conscience is priceless and our duty is unavoidable, blackmailable.”
While the head of state, Gustavo Petro, supported Rojas by expressing all his solidarity at the news. “The one who found corruption in the SAE and in Triple A, is now suspended by the control bodies that long ago should have discovered the corruption in the SAE with the assets of drug trafficking and in Triple A,” he wrote on Twitter.
In dialogue with EL TIEMPO, the suspended official spoke about the issue of Triple A and the management that he has given him with his team: “When we arrived in September, the business of early disposal of the shares that the SAE manages would have been done, which they are 86 percent of the company. And last December, the payment of the last installment of the business, which was made in 2021, was about to be perfected. Of course, the SAE does not have the technical expertise to manage a public service company.”
“So we request technical support from those who know about public services, and it is the Superintendency of Public Services. What we agreed with them was to value Triple A, and they have all the data that no valuation company has, and they find that this company is worth 2.4 trillion pesos in a conservative scenario, which indicates to us that there may be an indication of patrimonial detriment, while the business was made for 500 billion pesos,” said Rojas.
Now, the Attorney General’s Office highlights that the position of the president and the vice presidents of the SAE could generate a patrimonial detriment, for allegedly failing to comply with the contractual obligation to transfer the shares object of the sale.
This consequence, according to the entity, would derive “in making effective the penalty clause for 59 billion pesos, by the company K-Yena; at the same time, it warns of irregularities in the call to the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of the Triple A”, session that was held on February 7, when new members of the Board of Directors of Triple A were elected.
Faced with the investigation against Superintendent Dagoberto Quiroga Collazos, this was taken because he would have suggested to the SAE to suspend compliance with the contract, “functional action with which he could have contributed to the consummation of behaviors together with SAE officials so that suspend compliance with contractual obligations,” the Attorney General’s Office reported.
Carlos Lopez
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