Man captured in UNP truck with rifle ammo appears in million dollar contract with Barrancas mayor’s office

New sharp edges are added to the attack of which the director of the UNP was the victim, Augusto Rodriguez. Ten hours before the event, which occurred on Tuesday, March 7, south of Bogotá at around 10:30 p.m., authorities reported that seizure of useful ammunition for a gun caliber 5.56. This discovery led to the involvement of the representative’s name in the Camera Juan Loreto Gomez in the investigation which refers to the alleged irregularities that exist around the use of the armored vans of the National Protection Unit (UNP).

Note that it was at a checkpoint located in the municipality of Barrancas, in La Guajira, that traffic authorities found 175 cartridges in the UNP truck that had been assigned to Loreto Gómez to ensure its safety. The car was driven by a man identified as Juan Jose Madiedo Ospino, who was also immediately captured. Loreto defended herself and commented that this truck was not the one she used to get around The Guajira.

“The person captured for the crime of illegally transporting ammunition used the vehicle without our consent and without notifying any members of the security system, engaging in abusive behavior. reprehensible that it is the subject of an investigation by the competent authorities, in full knowledge of the facts”, first indicated the deputy in an interview granted to Radio Blueto say later that he knew the man, and that it was from a personal friend that he had abused his good faith.

“I couldn’t speak to him because he is detained, but we are friends and because we are friends, he abused my trust; he has to charge with the full weight of the lawproperly, that’s how it should be,” said Loreto Gómez law.

According to what the national press revealed, Madiedo appears as the representative law of the consortium Inter Urbanismo Barrancas. This company signed a contract worth around 2,500 million pesos with the mayor of Barrancas.

As the magazine reveals Weekby Resolution 391, on November 5, 2021, the Mayor of Barrancas, Iván Mauricio Soto, awarded the Inter Urbanismo Barrancas consortium the “technical, administrative, environmental and financial supervision” of the construction of urban planning works in the municipalities of Barrancas, Hatonuevo and the Mill. The deal was worth $24.971 million. The Consorcio Urbanismo y Espacio Público Barrancas appears to be responsible.

This is where the name of Juan Jose Madiedo Ospina as the legal representative of the aforementioned consortium.

This, underlines the investigation unit of the newspaper The weather, would be further proof of the alleged network of corruption that would exist within the UNP. It is important to remember that, although at the origin of the attack against the director of this entity Augusto Rodriguez there are theories of an alleged attempt to steal the truck, he himself points out that he is sure that they wanted to kill him that night, precisely because of the complaints he made about irregular situations within the UNP.

“I can’t say exactly why this happened, but on several occasions I brought up the situation What does the National Protection Unit know?. My position regarding the difficult situations that I have had to denounce, the commission of certain offenses by people who are unionized and who help companies to subcontract escorts, that is to say the companies for which the UNP hire the escortsThey have a strange relationship with the unions,” he said in an interview with local media over the weekend. The country.