reason for the postponement of the award of the Canal del Dique – Up Jobs News

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Referring to the sudden postponement of the billionaire award of the Canal del Dique, the president of the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez said yesterday here in La W: “We stop, we stop for one day. I directly requested that it stop, because a report came from the Comptroller General’s Office.”

President Gutiérrez’s statement hides the real reason that forced him to leave the decision of the mega-contract to the government of Gustavo Petro.

Hours before speaking with La W, exactly at the end of the afternoon of Wednesday, August 3, the official in charge of signing the award resigned from her position because she opposed the tender for 3.2 billion being delivered by the outgoing government.

That official is the vice president of structuring of the ANI, Diana Cardona, who in an exemplary attitude preferred to leave her job of 11 years rather than sign an award contrary to what her conscience indicated.

In a letter of resignation that you can see on the W Radio page, the senior official maintains that she is sure that the bidding process has been carried out correctly, however, she affirms that the award must be examined by the incoming government for these reasons. reasons:

1. Because the communities affected by the work oppose it and because members of the next cabinet have asked that the Duque government not be the one to grant the concession.
2. Due to the existence of a communication from the Comptroller requesting clarifications to the offer of the sole proponent Sacyr.
3. Because Sacyr could be disqualified by the sanction it received in Spain for 16.7 million euros for restrictive practices of competition. For that reason, he could be breaking the transnational bribery law that would prevent him from contracting with the Colombian state. The resigning official records in her letter that she expressly requested that the Superintendency of Companies examine the situation, but the president of the ANI, Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez, did not agree with the consultation.
4. Because of the communications from the Attorney General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office and the JEP where they ask the ANI for a hearing to socialize the project.

The president of the ANI, Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez, decided to accept the resignation and publicly declare here that he was the one who proposed postponing the award when the truth is that all this time he pressed to do it before August 7. That is, before his administration and the government of Iván Duque ended.

Dr. Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez said something that is not true. Referring to the metadata of the first postponement addendum in which Katherine Henao Montoya appears as the author, who has not been linked to the ANI for a few days, she attributed the fact to the fact that she had worked on a draft left by her.

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Metadata doesn’t work like that. That electronic fingerprint shows Katherine Henao as the author and the person who modified the document after 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. There is no trace of previous creation. This evidence can only indicate

• Or that a person who now works for the OHLA company had access to the award documents when his new employer had an interest in the Canal del Dique.
• Or that someone used the access privileges of a person who is no longer in the ANI and in this way the electronic fingerprint of the true author of the addendum disappeared.

Lawyer Katherine Henao Montoya is not as irrelevant as the president of the ANI wanted to paint her yesterday. Before joining the state agency, she had already been linked to the OHL group.

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In the records of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, she, along with another lawyer, is the person who constitutes the company OHL Infraestructuras SAS, in June 2019

OHLA, in one of whose subsidiaries the president of the ANI also worked, is part with Sacyr of the group of companies fined in Spain with more than 200 million euros for making illegal agreements to win public tenders by appealing to restrictive practices of competition.