{"id":39015,"date":"2020-07-24T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39015"},"modified":"2020-07-30T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:30:06","slug":"arrested-the-former-mayor-of-the-municipality-of-tipacoque-boyaca-for-alleged-irregularities-in-contracting-christmas-lighting-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/07\/24\/arrested-the-former-mayor-of-the-municipality-of-tipacoque-boyaca-for-alleged-irregularities-in-contracting-christmas-lighting-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested the former mayor of the municipality of Tipacoque (Boyac\u00e1) for alleged irregularities in contracting Christmas lighting in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General charged Nelson Humberto Melgarejo Angarita, former mayor of the municipality of Tipacoque (Boyaca) with the execution of a contract without complying with the legal requirements, misappropriation in favor of third parties and ideological representation.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The investigation carried out by a prosecutor of the Public Administration Unit (Unidad de Administraci\u00f3n P\u00fablica), Branch Office in Boyaca, showed that in November 2016 the then-mayor Melgarejo, signed a verbal contract to install the Christmas lights\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">in the municipality; however, once the work ended, the payment was not made to the contractor.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Through inquiries, inspections, selective database searches, obtaining documents and contractual analysis, it was possible to establish alleged irregularities in the process and execution of the aforementioned contract whose value was $40,000,000.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">It was established that the governor breached the contracting requirements when he allegedly verbally contracted the lighting.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Likewise, it was determined that the mayor signed in parallel an association agreement with a non-profit society for the same purpose, duplicating the object of the contract.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In the case of the agreement which was not executed as the installation had already been done by the previous contractor, the 40 million were paid.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Attorney General charged Nelson Humberto Melgarejo Angarita, former mayor of the municipality of Tipacoque (Boyaca) with the execution of a contract without complying with the legal requirements, misappropriation in favor of third parties and ideological representation.\u00a0 The investigation carried out by a prosecutor of the Public Administration Unit (Unidad de Administraci\u00f3n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39016,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015\/revisions\/39016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}