Five crimes were charged by the prosecution two former mayors of the municipality of Piedras, Tolima.
These are Rogelio Montealegre Murillo and Arquímedes Ávila Rondón, who were accused of the crimes of embezzlement by appropriation, prevarication by omission, contract without compliance with legal requirements, falsehood in a private document and ideological falsehood in a public document.
The Public Administration Unit of the Tolima Prosecutor’s Office found irregularities in the signing and execution of work contract 113 of November 19, 2011, whose purpose was the construction of the sewage system and its complementary works in the Campoalegre village, located in the area Rural of Stones.
The contracted value was for an amount close to 1,600 million pesos.
The same procedure covers Benjamín Orlando Arana Osuna, who was a contractor; Alberto Casabianca Moreno, who acted as auditor; Jhon Paul Peña Rojas, former adviser to the Ministry of Planning and Public Works in 2011; and Gloria Piedad Reyes Ariza, planning advisor for the same period.
Rogelio Montealegre Murillo, mayor in the 2008-2011 period, processed the contract with Arana Osuna, apparently without complying with the legal requirements. For his part, Peña Rojas, advisor to the Mayor’s Office, would have participated in the process without observing the essential requirements in the previous studies.
Arquímedes Ávila Rondón, mayor 2012-2015, liquidated the contract ignoring the alleged irregularities, according to the investigation.
The Prosecutor’s Office determined that Arana Osuna would have appropriated 290 million pesos, sum that was paid to him for activities and works that he never executed. Likewise, Casabianca Moreno, as controller of the contract, would have been allowed to appropriate 86 million pesos that were paid to him for activities that were also not carried out and for this they would have falsified public and private documents.
Meanwhile, Peña Rojas, Reyes Ariza and Casabianca Moreno apparently refused to carry out their duties, since they did not monitor the contract as required by law.
The preparatory trial hearing will be on June 13 of this year.
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