After several complaints about the alleged irregularities in the cemeteries concession contract for 41,000 million pesosawarded in May 2021 by the Public Services Administrative Unit (Uaesp), criticized the director of the entity, Luz Amanda Camacho.
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Immediately afterwards, on January 15, during the installation of the extraordinary sessions of the District Council, several councilors requested Camacho’s resignation. Among them, Lucía Bastidas, Marisol Gómez, Rubén Torrado and Martin Rivera.
Hours later, the director of Uaesp presented her irrevocable resignation letter to the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López. Later it became known that the entity now it will be directed by Javier BaqueroUndersecretary of Planning and Policy in the Secretary of Habitat.
“I will not be the instrument used by those who, out of habit, tend to exercise dirty strategies that clearly define a ‘modus operandi’; a ‘modus operandi’ that unfortunately has made a career in our society“, reads Camacho’s letter.
The official had taken office on January 9, 2020. As EL TIEMPO revealed, in several publications, the concession contract for the operation and administration of the four district cemeteries (North, Center, Serafín, and South) was questioned. among other reasons because The contractor managed the money collected for services in its own accounts and not in those of the trustIn addition, he did not pay bills for public services, surveillance and even social security for employees.
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Luz Amanda Camacho, director of Uaesp
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The Uaesp is a governing body in Bogotá in cleaning services, lighting and cemeteries. Therefore, after making the complaint in November 2022, The Prosecutor’s Office began to follow up on the case.
However, after finding out about the situation and the irregularities, the councilor of the Alianza Verde party, Lucía Bastidas, attacked Camacho and accused her of being responsible for this corruption scandal. In addition, he asked for his resignation.
“The director of the Uaesp must resign because there is corruption in the entity. She not only turned Bogotá into a dump due to her inability, but also allowed corruption to permeate the entityBastidas said.
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Given this, Camacho assured the media at that time that they were the first to denounce, and that Bastidas was not the one who discovered the irregularities.
Irregularities in the Uaesp contract
The questioned concession of district cemeteries has had collection of money for the provision of services and these resources have not been consigned to the trust, where they must be managednor have they been reported to the Uaespaccording to revelations from EL TIEMPO.
The outlet learned of a report in which the Bogotá Comptroller’s Office opens a preliminary inquiry to Uaesp, in which it is revealed that between July 2021 and August 2022 the concessionaire withdrew 5,721 million pesos that it received for services rendered in the cemeteries, but he did not transfer a single peso to the trust, which was precisely set up to manage the financial resources of the million-dollar contract.
The estimates of the control body, according to the document, indicate that as of October last year, be consigned in the trust 9,523 million pesosHowever, only 245.4 million were found, for a difference of 8,332 million pesos.
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The operation and maintenance concession of the district cemeteries (North or Chapinero, Centro, Serafín and del Sur) was awarded in May 2021 to the Unión Temporal Cemeteries of the District, which later became Jardines de Luz y Paz SAS, a firm to which was assigned the contract for 41,301 million pesos and a term of five years.
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With information from EL TIEMPO*
