Supreme Court endorses the investigation against Richard Aguilar pass into the hands of the Prosecutor's Office

The Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice endorsed that the investigation process against former Senator Richard Aguilar be transferred to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation. of the High Court resigned from his seat in the Senate, is accused of allegedly determining contract crimes without complying with legal requirements, author of undue interest in entering into contracts and co-author of an aggravated and embezzled conspiracy for appropriation in favor own and third parties.

Also read: In full marriage! This is how they captured alias 'Machete', head of the Clan del Golfo, in AntioquiaThe events for which the former senator is being investigated occurred from 2014 to 2015, when he was governor of the department of Santander, so the alleged actions had no nothing to do with his activity as a congressman. However, the process of judging the case will continue to be in the hands of the Supreme Court of Justice, which is also the entity that judges governors, as established in the Political Constitution, in its Article 235.“The Constitutional jurisdiction states that when you are a congressman, you investigate the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and judge the Trial Chamber, which although they are two separate chambers, are still the same Court. When you are a governor (as happened with Aguilar when the events occurred), this implies that the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation investigates and accuses before the Supreme Court, that is, the one who judges is the Court, but the Office of the Prosecutor investigates, ”explained the criminal lawyer Camilo Iván Pizza.The senator is being investigated promptly for a contract to reinforce the Alfonso López Stadium, in the Olympic Village in Bucaramanga, in 2015, worth more than 24,000 million pesos.

You may be interested: Harsh criticism of Claudia López for the proposal of "immigration police command"On December 5, 2014, the government, through the Infrastructure Secretary, published the notice of public tender for the structural reinforcement and adaptation of the stadium, the Vicente Díaz and José Antonio Galán coliseum, as well as the Olympic swimming pools. This for a value of 15,000 million pesos. On January 30, 2015, the contract was awarded to the Unión Temporal Reinforcement 2015, constituted by the companies Ingream SAS, Ingeniería, Servicios y Asesorías de Santander and Argeu S.A, four months later, the entity made an advance of 40%, that is, for 6,111 million pesos. Then an addition was made for 6,748 million pesos. In this contract, Aguilar allegedly requested a bribe of 10% of the business. In total, the Court said, Aguilar would have obtained for his own benefit more than 2,400 million pesos as a result of "bribes", and would have allowed the appropriation by third parties of public resources from the Department of Santander for more than 3,500 million belonging to the work contract No 0766 of 2015, for the structural reinforcement of the Bucaramanga stadium.The witnesses against Aguilar are Claudia Yaneth Toledo Bermúdez, former Secretary of Infrastructure in the Interior, and her husband Lenin Darío Pardo who, according to the investigation, received instructions of the then governor Aguilar and other officials on the contracting processes and those who should be favored with the award of the million-dollar works.