Controversy over new complaints from Mayor Dau | THE UNIVERSAL

mehe Mayor of Cartagena, Wllliam Dau, through his new initiative which he has called “Complaints Sunday”, revealed other alleged irregularities in the District and also referred to events that occurred in recent days, such as the investigation for the contract of the first Lady, Cynthia Pérez Amador, the departure of officials from her administration and the tensions with the Council.

The first case to which the mayor referred was the alleged authorization of a payment for more than $ 25 billion that the Mayor’s Office would have made to Aguas de Cartagena (Acuacar) with an alleged fake certificate. (Read here: District would have authorized a million payment to Acuacar with a rigged certificate)

The money is related to the accident due to the sinking of the Submarine Emissary in the Caribbean Sea in 2010. According to the president, once there was the mishap, the insurance policies were applied and a controversy began, since the District alleged that the money was of them, while Acuacar said the opposite, that the money was for the company. Dau explained that the dispute ended in an arbitration award in favor of the Cartagena District, however, he assures that the Secretary General of the previous administration, Martha Seidel Peralta, signed a transaction agreement with Acuacar on December 4, with a certificate ” false ”made by former official Nayib Tapia.

“Martha Seidel committed several crimes, multiple crimes by signing this document. She said that she had an authorization from the mayor Pedrito Pereira to pay for everything that had to do with public services, but this was something outside the provision of the aqueduct service (…) the possible criminal Martha Seidel and the possible criminal Nayib Alberto Tapia made a tumbe and this was in bad faith and shameless, “he said.

The former mayor of Cartagena, Pedrito Pereira, defended himself by assuring that “it is an old issue, it is an already historical controversy of the District, we must remember the sinister of the submarine emissary with an international company in December 2010, where the mayors of the respective times They had to make a decision, apparently due to the abandonment of the tubes on the high seas, and with Aguas de Cartagena they signed some documents to take charge of the rescue of the implements that were left in the open sea. There is a traceability from 2010 to here. The District has recognized the obligation period after period. If we had a permanent claim from Aguas de Cartagena for those monies, the company says that the commitment made by the District must be fulfilled, that they recovered and attended to the loss, and the District, if it was the winner of the lawsuit against that company, should return it the money to Aguas de Cartagena, so it was consigned. In 2017, a mayor in charge gave the order to be turned over to Aguas de Cartagena, but finally the resources reached the District; When we received the claims, the documentation was reviewed and we believed that they were not sufficient, we considered that a conciliation or transaction had to be made and this was done, but with an obligation that was already recognized. Seeing that the administrative period was already coming to an end, we did not make any payments for this administration to decide what to do with those resources, and we also did not make any payments ”. (Also read: Pedrito responds to Dau for alleged payment authorization to Acuacar)

“We believe that as this administration used those money to incorporate them into the budget, they are surely receiving complaints from Acuacar, it may be, and they are trying to create a scenario of irregularities to justify money that the District in previous administrations has recognized for the debt to Aguas de Cartagena for the handling of the claim, in such a way that it is clear that in 2019, the obligation was not recognized, which came from a long time ago, and no payment was made, the current administration is the one that has made use of those resources ” , said the former mayor (e) of Cartagena.

The president also referred to an alleged modus operandi implemented by Jorge Carrillo, former head of the Legal Office of the Mayor’s Office, who, according to him, on two occasions would have asked judges not to hand over money that corresponded to the District, to the Mayor’s Office accounts. , but to individuals.

Dau also reported that he filed a complaint against the former Familias en Acción district link, Jaqueline Perea, for the alleged theft of computer equipment.

“Those teams were removed by the director of Familias en Acción, Mrs. Jaqueline Perea, but when she handed over the position they were not related and did not appear anywhere, so I denounced her,” he said.

Perea defended himself by ensuring that all the supports were delivered.

“When I surrender my position or any official surrenders a position, he must have a warehouse peace of mind, in front of the computers or equipment indicated by the mayor, in general, since obviously some equipment was delivered for the program, of course that they had to leave the warehouse and surely I had to receive them. When I hand over my position, I do not hand it over to the current liaison, I hand it over to Carolina Cárdenas, she is the one who receives me, I also file what she receives me in the internal control office of the Mayor’s Office. Additionally, an official who is going to leave cannot have her liquidation canceled if she is not at peace and safe with the delivery of all communication, computer equipment, etc. ”.

The president of Cartagena also explained the dismissal of the wife of the councilman, currently suspended, Óscar Marín, who worked in the Ministry of Finance and seized the District (Hermelina Meñaca). He explained that the woman was removed from office because when he took office as mayor, she stopped going to work for several months arguing an earache, however, she never presented her incapacity for work.

The president added that after that the lobbyist’s wife filed a tutela against the District. “An unashamed judge ruled in her favor, accepting a certificate issued by a private doctor that this lady got and gave her what she wanted. In addition, the judge without any support said that she was handicapped, when that is not the case. I am going to denounce that judge for prevarication, ”the mayor reported.

Faced with these accusations, her husband explained that Meñaca “suffers from a condition called bilateral hearing loss, produced by loud noises from an air conditioner that he had in his office. The ARL was doing the procedures for her when they declared her unsubstantiated; the judge accepted our consideration by considering that there is a reinforced job stability and that is why they gave him 48 hours to reinstate it ”.