2024-05-03 13:53:23
The director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, Ungrd, Carlos Carrilloassures that the former mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, Yes, he had his political contributions in the entity during the direction of Olmedo Lópezwho left the entity and was also criminally denounced by the presidency of the republic itself, for the case of alleged corruption in the purchase of at least 40 tank cars to supply water to La Guajira which cost more than $46,000 million.
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After López’s departure in the midst of the scandal —López was the natural person who donated the most to the presidential campaign of Petro in 2018—the president entrusted Carlos Carrillo, former councilor of Bogota for him Democratic Pole and a renowned activist from the most radical wing of Petrism.
Well, since his arrival at the Ungrd, Carrillo has been in charge of continuing to investigate cases of alleged corruption and has come out of the people close to Olmedoamong them, some characters who had arrived at the entity after passing through the Medellin’s town hall during the administration of Daniel Quintero.
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This is the case, for example, of Alethia Arango Gilwho between June 2020 and September 2021, was the director of the Administrative Department of Disaster Risk Management, Dagrdof Medellín. From there, Arango became Undersecretary of Defense and Public Protection, assigned to the General Secretary of the Mayor’s Office, from where she left in November 2022 amid questions because Apparently he used the official Mayor’s car not only to travel to work but to carry out personal errands such as going to the gym. However, a day later he landed in the undersecretary of Social Organization, attached to the secretariat of Citizen Participation. Arango was part of the Quintero administration until March 2023, just six months before the former mayor presented his resignation.
Arango came to Ungrd as deputy director for risk management, “one of the directors closest to Olmedo” and he left in January of this year, when according to Carrillo, “the ship was already taking on water,” because by that time López had already been suspended from his position due to the scandal and it was Víctor Meza, the director in charge, who asked him to resign.
Carrillo also pointed out that, once Arango left officethe person who was still in line to replace her was Luisa Fernanda Gómez Villegas, who was Quintero’s Secretary of Infrastructure until the last days of his government. Although that appointment did not materialize, Carrillo published a screenshot of Gómez Villegas’ application for the position. “Quintero’s “progressive” patina is pure paint,” Carrillo concluded.
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Quintero’s defense and counterattack did not take long to arrive. The Former Mayor assures that Carrillo’s accusations against him are intended to divert attention from the recent appointment of the relatives of Iván Name (president of the Senate) in the entity. This because Carrillo appointed Leonidas Name, nephew of the Green Alliance congressman, as Secretary General of the entity.
Nevertheless, Carrillo has defended Name’s appointment, arguing that it has more to do with his experience than with his political relationship.well while Iván Name has shown himself to be an opponent of the Petro government, Leonidas, the nephew, was a candidate for the House of Representatives in 2022 by Historical Pact and campaigned for President Petro.
But the brawl in X between Quintero and Carrillo has not ended there. On this Friday morning, Carrillo said that Quintero “has more investigations than Covid” and assured that not only the Uribismo accuses him of “looting” Medellín but that “there are many political sectors that have denounced his incompetence as mayor and his moral flexibility.”
The leader concluded by saying that Quintero “has never been a left-wing man, he is an opportunist who leans towards the sun that shines brightest.”
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