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After the District Comptroller’s Office opened a process of fiscal responsibility against the District of Cartagena for alleged patrimonial detriment in the contract of the First Lady Cynthia Pérez Amador, and that last Friday the same entity demanded that the mayor suspend General Secretary Diana Martínez Berrocal for the same case, the District made the decision to modify the salary of the First Lady from $ 7 million to $ 2.2 million, as the Comptroller’s Office had indicated in the beginning. (Read here: Cynthia Pérez contract tax liability lawsuit opened)
“This district administration, apart from legal considerations, from which we find the agreed fees duly founded, in order to attend in a timely manner the investigation that is being carried out at this time, and given the position of the investigating entity, it is allowed to inform to the public and to the public opinion that we will proceed to modify the aforementioned contract, in order to adjust its value as indicated by the Comptroller’s Office ”, said the administration through a statement.
With this readjustment, it is expected that the process will finally be concluded and also that the order to suspend the General Secretary of the District, Diana Martínez Berrocal, will be invalidated, which according to the Comptroller’s Office should be separated from her position in order not to interfere in the ongoing investigation. that according to the control body it was she who signed the preliminary studies for Pérez Amador’s contract. (We recommend: The Comptroller’s Office orders Diana Martínez to be suspended due to Cynthia Pérez’s contract)
In turn, the Mayor’s Office announced that it will reimburse the amount that according to the Comptroller’s Office was paid “in excess” to the First Lady, corresponding to $ 33,600,000 ($ 4,800,000 each month).
“As a district administration we want to remind the people of Cartagena that we are respectful of the decisions of the control bodies, however, we reiterate that on this occasion we reject the reproaches of the Comptroller’s Office, because we consider that our actions have always been limited to the constitutional parameters and legal, and to that extent we will continue to defend our positions before the calls of the control and investigation bodies, ”the administration pointed out.
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