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The Agency of the Inspector General of Taxes, Income and Parafiscal Contributions (ITRC) dismissed and disqualified Ómar Ambuila for 18 years, for acts of corruption when he worked at DIAN.
The decision against Ambuila, who in the past held a position in the Internal Traffic and Cargo Control Working Group of the Customs Management Division in Buenaventura, was taken in the first instance.
According to the sanction against him, Ambuila unjustifiably increased its assets between 2013 and 2016.
According to the ITCR, the investigated “incurred the disciplinary offense provided for in article 48 of the Single Disciplinary Code” when committing that conduct, which was classified as very serious and as a fraud.
An appeal may be filed against this measure, to be decided in the second instance.
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This decision was made by the ITCR since this agency is part of the Ministry of Finance and exercises vigilance and control over the Dian, Coljuegos, and the Pension and Parafiscal Management Unit. Among the functions of the ITCR is to audit these entities, investigate and sanction their officials for irregular behavior and disciplinary offenses.
In June this year, Ambuila had been provisionally suspended by the ITCR, but the decision now is final.
Although Ambuila He was charged by the Prosecutor’s Office in December last year for the crimes of money laundering, favoring smuggling, illicit enrichment and conspiracy to commit a crime, in March this year he was released due to expiration of terms.
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By these facts tAmbuila’s wife, Elba Chará, and her daughter Jenny Ambuila were also linked. According to the investigation, Ómar Ambuila was allegedly part of a smuggling network while he was working at Dian in Buenaventura and, together with other officials, allowed the looting of merchandise that entered in containers and that was not declared in documents.
For this work, says the investigation, Ambuila received illicit money that he later moved in purchases and transactions with which he tried to give it the appearance of legality, money from which his daughter and wife were supposedly benefiting.
According to the process, in the United States Jenny Ambuila would have achieved buy a Porsche Cayenne and a Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, valued at $ 895 million, with money that, according to the investigation, his father sent in several transfers abroad.
For January of next year, the hearing in Cali in which the preparatory trial against Ambuila and his two family members will be held. At this stage, the Prosecutor’s Office will present evidence and witnesses in this case.
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