{"id":39362,"date":"2020-10-02T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39362"},"modified":"2020-10-07T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:21:39","slug":"mayor-of-marseille-his-secretary-of-government-and-two-private-individuals-were-arrested-for-alleged-irregularities-in-hiring-school-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/10\/02\/mayor-of-marseille-his-secretary-of-government-and-two-private-individuals-were-arrested-for-alleged-irregularities-in-hiring-school-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of Marseille, his secretary of government and two private individuals were arrested for alleged irregularities in hiring school transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_3U2q6dcdZCrTrR_42Nxby JWNdg1hee9_Rz6bIGvG1c allowTextSelection\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p><em><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Home confinement was imposed for the four people involved in the case due to their particular conditions.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Within the framework of the strategic direction defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, in his fight against corruption, the Branch Office in Risaralda charged two public servants of the municipality of Marsella (Risaralda) and two private individuals with execution of contract without compliance with legal requirements,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><a id=\"LPlnk606901\"><\/a>violation of the legal or constitutional rules of incompatibilities and disqualifications<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0for alleged irregularities in the execution of a contract.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The charges were brought before the Court of mixed jurisdiction* Marseille. Those people involved are:<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Alberto Rivera Cifuentes,\u00a0mayor of the municipality<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">H\u00e9ctor Dar\u00edo Montoya Arroyave,\u00a0secretary of the municipal government\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Albeiro de Jes\u00fas Colorado Murillo,\u00a0legal representative of the Association of Communal Boards of the municipality\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Nelson Rivera Cifuentes,\u00a0legal representative of\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Cooperativa de Transportadores de Marsella Ltda.<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">People involved did not plead guilty to the charges. The facts under investigation took place in January of this year and are related to the hiring of the transportation service that would allow students to be transported\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">from the rural settlements to the municipal schools.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">It is under investigation whether the requirements of the National Transport Statute (Estatuto Nacional de Transporte) regarding the contracting of school transport, as well as the requirements and principles established for public contracting and the administrative function, were affected.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The contract would be for COP 175&#8217;352,689 and was signed with the Communal Boards Association of Marsella (Asociaci\u00f3n de Juntas de Acci\u00f3n Comunal del municipio de Marsella), a non-profit entity that apparently lacked the suitability, experience and financial capacity to assume the responsibility.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">With this hiring, the legal process and the legal requirements were allegedly ignored since the company, which was legally constituted and with the capacities to provide the service, is represented by the current mayor\u00b4s brother. This condition prevented direct contracting due to their consanguinity. Moreover, in order to evade the norm, a front man was allegedly used, in which Cooperativa de Transportes de Marsella Risaralda Ltda, allegedly executed the contract.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Therefore, it is presumed that executing a contract without the compliance with the legal requirements could have evaded\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">the constitutional rules of incompatibilities and disqualifications since Cooperativa de Transportes de Marsella Risaralda Ltda, company that belonged to the governor\u00b4s\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">relative, was subcontracted for that end.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The court of mixed jurisdiction of Marseille (Risaralda) imposed home confinement against people involved, taking into account the age of mayor Rivera Cifuentes (68 years) and Colorado Murillo (66 years).<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Likewise, the judge took into account an underlying condition and Covid in the case of Montoya Arroyave and Rivera Cifuentes, respectively.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">*Juzgado \u00a0promiscuo \u00a0in \u00a0spanish.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"_2zX2caDms6Dyd9Ch--6tVn\">\n<div class=\"_3hNohI4SDCYc8T81_nBwJA\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gtzQx-8i8SadO4I0iX1Yy JWNdg1hee9_Rz6bIGvG1c allowTextSelection\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home confinement was imposed for the four people involved in the case due to their particular conditions.\u00a0 Within the framework of the strategic direction defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, in his fight against corruption, the Branch Office in Risaralda charged two public servants of the municipality of Marsella (Risaralda) and two private [&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-39362","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\/39362"}],"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=39362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39363,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions\/39363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}