Corruption Case Involving Former Governor and Former Presidential Candidate Carlos Amaya Uncovered

In the magazine Cambio, a column was published that uncovered an alleged case of corruption caused by the detriment of a total of 4.5 billion pesos, during the administration of the former governor of Boyacá and presidential candidate of the Somos Verde Esperanza party, Carlos Amaya.

As detailed in the publication, the Foundation Obras y Servicios Sociales de Colombia SOS located in Lorica, Córdoba, has been awarded a contract for the provision of an “educational service to the elderly population and non-school people” in Tunja, the capital of Boyacá. Likewise, he specified that “a poster of old students and ghosts who now roam the corridors of the Comptroller's Office” was created.

In this way, he says that during Amaya's administration in the Governorate of Boyacá, contract 1061 of 2016 was signed for more than 6 billion pesos.

It also states that “payments totaling more than 1.7 billion pesos were made for services supposedly provided by the SOS Foundation, but of which there is no support whatsoever for their execution. The SOS Foundation reported students who didn't really exist, because their license plate holders have never appeared,” says journalist Yohir Akerman's column.

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But it also raises other facts such as that in the same year that the former governor of Boyacá and his wife Daniela Assis Fierro began their dating, it was the same year that the contract under investigation by the Comptroller General of the Nation was signed. This relationship became a marriage in 2018, the year in which Luis Ernesto Gómez, chief of staff of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá became the godfather of marriage of the aforementioned couple. And so he mentions Karol Dahiana González Mora, wife of Gómez, who is currently the Comptroller Delegate Intersectorial 7 and candidate to manage the entity.

In the same way, he says that in the same year that the couple consummated their marriage, the Tax Responsibility Process began due to capital detriment exceeding 4.3 billion pesos, which is still being carried out by the controlling body. According to the column of the national media, the contract was stipulated for 6 billion pesos, detailing “strange” data such as the address of the foundation, located in a residence in Lorica.

A total of 132 students with false identification numbers were also found for whom no data were found in the Registry Office. Likewise, the column mentions that between 2016 and 2017, payments were recorded in Lorica for items such as purchases with credit cards for 51,042,571 pesos and the payment of a credit of 81,950,340 pesos.

The former governor issued a statement on what was said in the column, in which he specified:

Given this, this is what the journalist said:

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