A strong political storm was unleashed by the former director of UNGRD, Olmedo López, who revealed before the Supreme Court of Justice that he allegedly received orders from high-ranking officials of the National Government to rig and award contracts to congressmen from different regions of Colombia.
Besides, The former official pointed out that the secret meetings took place in the presidency of the Republicat the Ministry of Finance and in his own office. He also pointed out that the payments amounted to more than 90 billion pesos.
Francisco Santos, former Colombian ambassador to the United States, spoke out on this sensitive issue and spoke exclusively to . He said that the head, according to him, of this entire web of corruption is President Gustavo Petro himself.
“This political operation has, in addition to the head, who is the president, a great operator, who uses the ministers and works with them, who is Carlos Ramón (González). His story is very clear. He stayed in the Green Party and had huge corruption scandals in health issues in Santander. He is a gem, he knows what he has dedicated himself to and his story is very clear,” he said.
Finally, Santos concluded: “The meeting with Olmedo took place at the Palace. It was with the permission of the person who was then the Secretary General of the Palace, who is the President’s right-hand man and who does not move without the President’s knowledge. This is the description of a criminal conspiracy, whose head is President Gustavo Petro, who has some executors who are those ministers and who has some recipients of corruption who are the congressmen,” he said.
It should be remembered that Olmedo López revealed a few months ago that everything was organized in what he decided to call the “conclave.” It was a meeting that took place in Casa de Nariño, in the offices of Dapre, and which was called by Carlos Ramón González.
The ultimate proof that Olmedo’s revelations are true is a notebook belonging to the former official, where the distribution of three contracts totaling 91 billion pesos is noted.
The notes make it clear how those 91 billion had to be distributed like this: 11.7 billion in Carmen de Bolívar (Bolívar), 46 billion in Cotorra (Córdoba) and the Bojaba River area in Arauca, where 34 billion were sent, and 34,000 million for representative Karen Manrique.
