Like jam on a piece of bread. This is how the National Savings Fund (Fna) would distribute positions among members of Congress, in exchange for supporting the current administration’s health, labor and pension reforms.
This controversial complaint was publicized by W Radio, which indicated that the entity would receive Liberal support for the executive branch’s initiatives. They would have received more than 250 resumes for positions that this party would like to have in the Fna.
According to the media concerned, a meeting took place three weeks ago between the government, some liberal representatives and the president of the financial institution, Gilberto Rondón. The latter allegedly asked congressmen for influence in the government’s projects in exchange for unethical rewards.
“Senator Mauricio Gómez handed out between 25 and 28 CVs, of which he had been hired up to that point, to 7 people (…). Senator Fabio Amín got 18 job offers and although he delivered the same number of CVs for life, 8 managed to keep contracts,” said initially the W.
Likewise, the outlet assured that Juan Pablo Gallo has provided 13 profiles and they have hired 3 people. Senator Miguel Ángel Pinto presented two and they hired one.
Faced with these allegations, the Attorney General’s Office opened a preliminary investigation against the FNA officials to clarify whether the entity facilitated the irregular hiring of people for positions for which they would be unqualified.
The prosecution will be the one to validate the number of people who have left the financial institution in recent months, as well as the processes put in place to handle the layoffs that would have accelerated the succession of new hires.
“The disciplinary action initiated by the Attorney General’s Office aims to establish the occurrence of the alleged conduct, determine whether it constitutes a disciplinary violation, and determine whether or not action has been taken on grounds of exclusion of responsibility,” the regulator said.
Who would keep the Fna ship?
Versions suggest that President Petro asked Rondón to resign after the scandal broke. However, El Tiempo recently revealed, according to close sources, that this did not happen.
Similarly, in an interview with the W, the director of the Fna admitted that “he who wins the election rules with his people”.
“I don’t know if these reps got these positions or not, I don’t know because I don’t have the account, it’s that it’s a lot of people, but what I do know is that they would have the right to It’s that we being in a pluralistic and participatory democracy and in a pluralistic and participatory democracy, whoever wins the elections rules with his people, that is clear,” the official said in statements to the above-mentioned media.
For his part, speculation is circulating about who will replace the current president of Fna. Ex-senator Julián Bedoya stands out in the palette of possibilities, who is under investigation for allegedly managing an institutional fraud in order to obtain his law degree from the University of Medellín.
There is also talk of Luciano Grisales, a former liberal representative, who was allegedly nominated by former senator Bedoya.
Source: El Heraldo
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