Miguel Uribe Turbay is involved in COVID-19 contracts



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According to him, people close to the former Secretary of Government of Bogotá Miguel Uribe Turbay received large contracts charged to the Covid subaccount, whose money is managed by the government of Iván Duque.

Camilo Enciso assures that some of the people who supported Uribe Turbay, when he ran for mayor of Bogotá and lost the elections in 2019, “They enjoy millionaire contracts on behalf of the official fight against the pandemic.”

The director of the Anticorruption Institute also assures that Miguel Uribe Turbay is in charge of “managing the Covid Sub-account of the Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD)”, in charge of managing the resources that the State has available to attend the emergency.

Such is the responsibility that the young politician would have, that this Saturday he starred in a scuffle with the Secretary of Government of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, that said subaccount is in charge of paying for the vaccines against COVID-19 to the pharmaceutical multinationals AstraZeneca and Pfizer, Enciso points out in his column titled ‘The Dolphin Vaccine’.

Los Danieles: they denounce contracts in favor of acquaintances of Miguel Uribe Turbay

Not only Miguel Uribe is mentioned in the text published this Sunday. In addition, Enciso points out Adriana Lucía Jiménez to be the general manager of the Covid Sub-account, who has been working with Miguel Uribe Turbay for a long time.

“First as a lawyer for the Bogotá Government Secretariat, a position she entered with a salary of 3,888,041 in April 2016 and later as manager of the mayoral campaign of her political boss. With his new contract charged to the Covid Sub-account, he started to earn $ 14,673,713 per month, ”Enciso denounces.

Another of the beneficiaries of said contracts would be Mr. Eduardo José González and Juan Sebastián Castro Gaona, who are people very close to Uribe Turbay and whose salaries are between 10 and 15 million pesos per month. Even, says Enciso, some of the contractors can receive up to 17 million in salary.

“One of the most benefited contractors is the retired general Gustavo Rincón Rivera, a failed former candidate for the Presidency of Acore (an entity that brings together retired military personnel), who signed a contract for 12 million per month in order to provide legal advisory services” , denounces the columnist.

Pulzo consulted the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management and, indeed, some of the names mentioned by Enciso appear in his column this Sunday. In a document dated May 4, 2020, the hiring of Mrs. Adriana Jiménez is ordered to assume the management of the Sub-account for the Mitigation of COVID-19 Emergencies, with a salary of more than 14 million pesos, plus 2 ‘ 700,000 pesos for VAT, to round up an amount of more than 17 million pesos.

Miguel Uribe Turbay has not commented on the complaint.

Note: the initial version of this article was modified to specify that the contracts were received by people close to Miguel Uribe Turbay.

Through Twitter, Camilo Enciso shared his complaint, which has been replicated by thousands of users and characters with the most followers on that social network:



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