El ajedrez detrás del escándalo UNGRD: lista completa de exfuncionarios salpicados
El Tribunal Superior de Bogotá envió a la cárcel a Ricardo Bonilla, exministro de Hacienda; y Luis Fernando Velasco, exministro del Interior, por su presunta participación en el escándalo de la Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (UNGRD).
TL;DR
- Former ministers Ricardo Bonilla and Luis Fernando Velasco have been jailed by the Superior Tribunal of Bogotá.
- They are implicated in the corruption scandal of the Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (UNGRD).
- This brings the total number of jailed individuals in the scandal to eight.
- Olmedo López (ex-director of UNGRD) and Sneyder Pinilla (ex-subdirector) are central figures who revealed details.
- The scandal involves alleged cost overruns in the purchase of water tank trucks, with funds potentially used as bribes for congressmen.
- A meeting, referred to as the 'conclave,' allegedly occurred at the Palacio de Nariño on November 27, 2023, attended by several high-ranking officials.
- This meeting may have been where a strategy to bribe congressmen for the approval of labor and pension reforms was planned.
- Other implicated individuals include Sandra Ortiz (ex-advisor), Iván Name (ex-congressman), and Andrés Calle (ex-congressman).
- Carlos Ramón González (ex-director of Intelligence) and César Manrique (ex-director of Función Pública) are currently fugitives.
- Alejandra Benavides (ex-advisor to Bonilla) has confessed to approaches made by the ex-minister to senators.