On the morning of this Sunday, with the mediation of the Ombudsman, he appeared before the Riohacha Police, La Guajira, Oneida Pinto Pérez, who was a fugitive from justice since June 18, 2019.
That day the Prosecutor’s Office charged him with crimes, and in the midst of a recess, the former governor did not return to the Paloquemao courts.
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Pinto voluntarily contacted the Ombudsman and, under strict biosecurity measures, turned himself in to the Police. Everything indicates that Pinto was confident that the insurance measure would not be extended, but the Prosecutor’s Office managed to get a judge to extend its validity and that would have forced her to surrender.
The Prosecutor’s Office advances six investigations against the former governor for losses of more than 5,900 million pesos in the purchase of paving stones in the municipality of Albania.
At the time, the Prosecutor’s Office asked for an insurance measure against Pinto, who is accused of conspiracy to commit a crime, a contract without compliance with legal requirements, embezzlement for appropriation, undue interest in concluding contracts, falsehood in a private document and ideological falsehood in a public document .
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The Ombudsman’s Office accompanied the voluntary handover of the former governor of La Guajira, Oneida Pinto, to the Guajira Police Command in Riohacha. pic.twitter.com/99v6x39CD0
– Defensoría delPueblo (@DefensoriaCol) July 12, 2020
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The events are related to two contracts, one dated August 6, 2010 and the other dated March 10, 2011, which were intended to ‘paving various roads in Albania, La Guajira‘to generate employment in the municipality.
The sum of the two contracts was 12,590 million pesos, of which, the FIscalía said, 5,981 million pesos were appropriated and were not invested in the works.
(Surely you are interested in: Oneida Pinto, free because justice let the terms for trial expire).
Despite the fact that Pinto’s defense assured that the former governor belonged to the Wayúu indigenous community, of the Municipality of Albania, seeking that the justice of her community be the one to judge her, the Supreme Court indicated that her case would continue in court. ordinary.
Pinto enjoyed the benefit of house for jail, and at the beginning of June of last year he was released for the benefit of terms, therefore, on June 18 of the same year, the Prosecutor’s Office had again requested an insurance measure.
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