The first instance measure is due to the cost overruns in the purchase of the 40 tank cars in La Guajira.
The Attorney General’s Office imposed the first sanctions on three former directors of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) for his participation in the corruption and looting scandal that affected this entity.
The first instance disciplinary sanction was imposed for the irregular allocation of 40 unusable water tank trucks for the La Guajira region, where more than 46 billion pesos were lost.
According to the first instance ruling, Sneyder Pinilla, who served as deputy director of Disaster Management, received a sanction of 20 years of disability.
He Former director of the UNGRD, Olmedo López, was sanctioned with 18 years of disqualification and also remains in military custody. The third sanctioned, Víctor Andrés Meza, who held the position of former deputy director general of the UNGRD, received a 10-year disqualification.
“In a first instance ruling, the Attorney General’s Office sanctioned dismissal and general disqualification for 18 years to the former director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) Olmedo de Jesús López Martínez; and 20 to the former deputy director of Disaster Management, Sneyder Augusto Pinilla Álvarez, for the payment of extra costs in the acquisition of 40 tank trucks that would be used for the supply of drinking water in the department of La Guajira,” says the statement from the Attorney General’s Office.
It should be remembered that this scandal became known through the testimony of Luis Eduardo Lópezalias ‘El Pastuso’, a businessman who confessed guilty of participating in the irregular events along with Olmedo López and Sneyder Pinilla. According to According to the witness, the companies Impoamericana Roger SAS, Luket SAS and Brand SAS were used. to rig the contract related to the tank cars.
The episode revealed a series of illegal acts that led to theThe loss of public resources allocated to disaster relief in one of the most vulnerable regions of the country.
Within the framework of the criminal process, the businessman López signed a pre-agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, in which he committed to return 7,722 million pesos and accepted a sentence of six years in prison.
This agreement reflects the authorities’ intention to recover part of the embezzled resources and do justice in a case that has shocked public opinion.
The sanctions imposed by the Attorney General’s Office not only They seek to punish those responsible, but also to prevent future acts of corruption in State entities.
Surveillance and control over the management of public resources become a priority to guarantee transparency and citizen trust in institutions. The UNGRD, in its risk management work, must strengthen its internal mechanisms to prevent situations like this from happening in the future.
Source: Integrated Information System
