The candidate for the presidency seeks to reach the House of Nariño in the midst of an investigation against him.
The candidate Rodolfo Hernández has an open process in the Prosecutor’s Office.
After the first presidential round in Colombia, the candidates fine-tune their artillery to get a large second-round vote and thus rise to the position of President of the Republic. One of the candidates is Rodolfo Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga who is involved in a case of alleged corruption in that city. This process is known as ‘the Vitalogic case’, where a company was sought to benefit through a contract for garbage management in the ‘Ciudad Bonita’.
Vitalogic Case
The process that is still open in the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation is one of the stains that has taken hold of the presidential candidate until At the moment, however, this did not seem to matter, since it obtained the second highest vote in the elections last Sunday, May 29. The ‘Engineer’ is accused of the crime of alleged Undue Interest in the Celebration of Contracts.
Everything goes back to the year 2016, when a contract was signed between two important individuals from the capital of Santander, on the one hand, Jorge Hernán Alarcón Ayala, who worked as a contractor, and on the other, the manager of the Cleaning Company Municipal de Bucaramanga (EMAB), José Manuel Barrera Arias.
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The reason for signing this contract was directly related to the health crisis that Bucaramanga would have, due to the management of garbage in the El Carrasco landfill. It is important to bear in mind that this problem did not arise directly in the Hernández administration, since it was a situation that the city had been experiencing for several years and was one of the improvement proposals promised by the now presidential candidate .
Rodolfo Hernández wanted to put Bucaramanga at the top of the technological incursion, since he intended to follow an international model where garbage and other waste can be converted into energy, however, although it seemed easy, Hernández had to resort to an exhaustive search for a company that could supply the necessary tools to meet this objective.
The controversial contract
Through José Manuel Barrera Arias, manager of the EMAB, Jorge Hernán Alarcón Ayala was hired for a figure that reached $344 million pesos. However, this was not the straw that broke the camel’s back, because months later the candidate’s son appeared, Luis Carlos Hernández, who worked with Vitalogic and applied for a bidding contest on this subject.
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Given this issue, the The Attorney General highlighted: “It was shown that Hernández Oliveros together with Luis Andelfo Trujillo and Carlos Gutiérrez signed a brokerage document that allowed them to collect a commission if the Bucaramanga Cleaning Company (EMAB S.A. E.S.P.) entered into a legal transaction with those who promoted the technology” .
Furthermore, to this is added a series of tests provided again by the Attorney General’s Office, where the following stands out: “Whatsapp conversations of the people who signed it and in which Hernández Oliveros refers that he discussed with his father aspects of the tender that were later informed to the participants and about the mayor’s meetings held with the representatives of WastAway in Colombia, José Manuel Hormaza, Florin Volcinschi and Héctor Hernando Baquero, in particular on April 22 and July 24, 2016″.
Although this contract was never signed, it is the angular stone that Hernandez’s path stumbles, some versions suggest that the Santanderean sought to urge Vitalogic to benefit from the award of the contract, in addition, that his son would allegedly be charging a commission in case the company left winner in the contest with the city.
On July 21, Rodolfo Hernández will have to appear before the authorities to clarify the case, where he will be a witness c lave José Manuel Barrera, former manager of the Bucaramanga Municipal Cleaning Company.