Former Governor of La Guajira, Oneida Pinto, will comply with a detention order for the alleged detriment of more than $5.9 billion to the municipality of Albania (La Guajira)

Given the conclusive investigation carried out by the Office of the Attorney General into Oneida Reyeth Pinto Pérez, the 5^th Municipal Court (with supervisory functions) extended last July 1^st the arrest warrant issued against the above mentioned person for a term of one year in order to serve a prison sentence that was pronounced on July 5^th, 2019. This decision became a reality in the last hours since the defendant turned herself in to the authorities.

Pinto Pérez was arrested for alleged irregularities in contracts in the years 2010-2011 in the municipality of Albania (La Guajira). She apparently created a foundation named Princesa Negra to be in charge of auditing the road-paving contract in that municipality for amounts exceeding 12,000,000,000. The investigators established that there was a possible detriment to that municipality for $ 5,981’965,192.

 For these irregularities, the Office of the Attorney General charged the defendant in 2019 for the alleged commission of criminal conspiracy, misappropriation, execution of a contract without compliance with the legal requirements and misrepresentation.