On July 23, Alfonso Montes Correa was arrested by CTI and Sijín officials in order to serve a sentence.
After accepting the evidence collected by the Attorney General’s Office, the Circuit Court of Anserma (Caldas) sentenced Héctor Alfonso Montes Correa, former municipal mayor of San José; and Cristian Camilo Gallego Ortiz, former Secretary of Social Development and Government (Desarrollo Social y Gobierno ) of the same municipality, to 64 months in prison and were also ordered to pay a fine of 66.6 legal monthly minimum wages for the offense of execution of a contract without compliance with legal requirements.
The facts that were investigated by the Branch Office in Caldas took place on November 8, 2014, when agreement No. 005-2014 for $ 11,919,333 was signed between the Municipality and Unión Temporal ABC Nutricional de Caldas despite the fact that this entity had been previously created to carry out the tender in the Department of Caldas and not to execute the agreement in the municipal administration of San José.
Montes Correa, in his capacity as mayor and legal representative of the municipality signed the aforementioned agreement, whose ‘objective’ was to comply with the school meals program (Programa de Alimentación Escolar -PAE), by joining efforts to guarantee the nutrition of children and teenagers in the municipality of San José. For his part, Gallego Ortiz was the one who acted as supervisor of the agreement which did not comply with the requirements of the law required in the state contracting.