4 to 72 former officials to be investigated by attorney general’s office for omission in multi-million dollar contract

In a statement released by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation On the morning of Monday, February 27, 2023, it was learned that the oversight entity had sent a statement of objections to the former secretary general of 4-72 (National postal services SAS), Juan Manuel Reyes Alvarezwho was in office between 2016 and 2019, for an alleged omission of functions in the supervision of a contract for the supply of support personnel, signed for 16 billion pesos.

In addition, a statement of charges was also issued to the former national director of human management of the same entity, Maria Yaneth Galindo Barbosawho worked in 2016, for the same cause.

According Public ministerApparently, the people surveyed did not check that the established budget limits were respected In the contractsince the company in charge continued to provide the service after the exhaustion of the resources allocated to the work, whereas this situation was a sufficient reason to end the execution period.

As a result, the contractor instituted a lawsuit against 4-72claiming payment of 369 million pesos, for expenses incurred in providing the service outside the agreed limit.

Therefore, the Attorney General’s Office described the alleged act of the two respondents as a serious offense committed as a very serious fault.

Remember that on May 23, 2016, the company National Postal Service 4-72 has signed a contract with the company Macroservicios Express de Colombia SAS worth more than 20 billion pesos for the land transport service of postcards and shipments in the Valle del Cauca region.

He contract drawn up without problems until November of that year, he arrived at the principal’s office, Adriana Barragana package with reports of alleged irregularities with payment to the company in that region.

According to the complaint, there had been overbilling, that is, a value for services not provided, of approximately three billion pesos. The director immediately ordered an Internal Control investigation and forwarded the complaints to the Attorney General’s Office. Two years after the filing of the complaints to the public prosecutor, sources assured that nothing had ever happened there. The director herself barragan He stated that he had not received a response from attorney.

However, the Internal Oversight Office followed due process and began investigating. On May 23, 2017, he sent a document to barragan which collected 12 conclusions on the contract with Macroservicios in which it was concluded that they had been proven irregular movements in the entity’s software to generate more settlements than needed to get paid, which meant that someone within 4-72 He was involved.

This referred to the number of items delivered by the postal agency and in the detailed document of the Internal Control Office, a kind of small controller within all the state entitiesit has been argued that the software which uses 4-72 He had been manipulated to generate more resources for the Valle del Cauca company, but without providing the services.

“Additionally, the managed machine name and IP address were shown to not match the entity’s addresses and machines. As for the externals, their origin could not be determined,” said the attorney.

Internal Control established in 2019 that there were atypical charges in some of the 152 municipalities where it operates 4-72 in the Cauca Valley. Well, charges were generated for phantom services that were never received.