Mayor of Calarcá suspended for millionaire contract for markets



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Along with Balsero Contreras, the administrative secretary of that municipality, José Winser Garzón Tobaría, who, according to The Chronicle of Quindío, are linked to the investigation by a contract of 396,951,000 pesos, signed on April 13 to attend the emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The local media explains that this contract was agreed with Abelardo de Jesús Echeverri Penagos, owner of a de El Progreso ’supermarket, supplier with which the municipal administration also signed another agreement, on April 8, for a value of 15,000,000 pesos “And certification of the publication in the Secop of the actions of said contracts.”

But the irregularities started when the supermarket owner noticed that there was a millionaire contract that claims “never have signed”, and, therefore, the media says that the merchant decided to alert the authorities.

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El Tiempo was given the task of contacting the provider and found a similar response: that the “signature is not yours”.

Another fact that the capital environment found is that the contract of 15,000,000 pesos was made to acquire cleaning and disinfection products, but that the purchase of markets is the most expensive. Of course, he says, but “for 381 million pesos more than the supplier agreed”.

In this case, the newspaper indicates that the mayor’s response, chosen by the Calarcá Coalition for All and Radical Change, was: “An internal investigation was launched to determine if the complaint about an alleged false signature is real and to determine who put it. So I asked for the report. “



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