It happened in Barrancabermeja and although authorities “remain firm in the decision.” The community has not skimped on pointing out, criticizing and denouncing, “you don’t do that to people” or “they blocked me without owing anything” they say.
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Tremendous has been the ‘bororó’ that was formed in Barrancabermeja, Santander, where the authorities established a curious measure to charge those who “do not pay taxes and subpoenas” for transit. They explained that in order to “pressure” and enforce the obligations, they decided to report and even freeze the accounts of Nequi and other banks.
For this reason, the transit office this Monday and Tuesday woke up full of citizens who were dissatisfied and angry with the situation.
They were blocked by Nequi
One of those affected by the situation told local media that “it happens to me that I am going to make a transaction through the platform and it gets blocked.”
He stated that “I go back and try and get blocked, I call Nequi and they tell me that it is blocked for traffic due to license plate tax and that I have to go to the Barrancabermeja Traffic Directorate.”
Another of those affected for her part expressed that “they blocked my account and I owe nothing to the traffic inspection.”
He said that he approached the place with “the papers and they gave me a certificate that I owe nothing to the traffic inspection, but that it is a process and the money is frozen there.”
What Barrancabermeja Transit responded
Faced with the controversial situation, the Barrancabermeja Traffic inspector, Devinson Gómez, told Noticias Telepetróleo that they are coercive charges that the entity is making for debts from 2020 and that they are close to expiring.
“It is a legal procedure, the Comptroller’s Office requires us to carry out some procedures and make the coercive collection, otherwise we would be generating a public detriment.”
In addition, “what we tell people is that they approach the entity and make the payment of the debt or a payment agreement in the case of subpoenas,” said Gómez.
On the other hand, the official was emphatic in stating that they owe Transit $100,000 million, of which “$79,000 million are for subpoenas and the rest for taxes and license plate fees.”
