Clan del Golfo estaría detrás de empresa contratista con operación en ocho departamentos

0:00 At the WU, Colonel Daniel' s report. Please. Good morning and a very special greeting to your brave guest what history is all about. Good morning, July. This is the Colonel report. The Gulf Clan, which is the largest criminal organization in Colombia, would be behind an engineering company that has had public works contracts in eight departments of Colombia directly or through its associates in consortia and temporary unions. The complaint will be filed in the next few hours with the Attorney General of the Nation light Adriana Camargo, by Congresswoman Carolina Giraldo Botero, representative to the House porris Aralda and member of the Green Alliance Party. According to the extensive and documented memorial, the company PROICOM SAS has among its partners Hipólito Mendoza, Cea and César Augusto Rincón González, who in two thousand twenty- one were captured for allegedly related to the structure of ferrate testa and laundering of assets of the Gulf Glande. According to the complaint, one of those mentioned, Hipólito Mendoza has had control over more than three zero goods, furniture and real estate, livestock and commercial establishments. All this has been evaluated at more than 250 billion pesos. But curiously, a person with so many fortunes has taken time to continue to be a member of the legislative

1:34 work unit of Cristóbal Rodríguez Hernández, who was a representative of the U Party House by Boyacá. Mr Mendoza sea He was also a contractor for the first vice- presidency of the House of Representatives on the recommendation of Congressman Oscar Villamizar Meneses representative to the House of the Centro Democrático por Santander, a former member of the Indictment Commission, who we spoke about and also first vice- president of the House. Another partner of the contractor company is César Augusto Rincón González, noted for his alleged link with the Gulf Plan and the office in vigada.

2:19 According to the complaint of Representative Carolina Giraldo, the two men would have ties with John Fredy and Zapata Garzón alias Messi or padlock and John Henry González Herrera alias Medio Labio. Proicom Saz has had contracts for twenty- two million pesos in eight departments and twelve municipalities. Valla Solano in Chocó, Chinchina, Manizales, Samaná and Pacora, in Caldas, Marseille and Pereira, in Risaralda, Girardota in Antioquia, Puerto and Iria, in Guaynia, Puerto Rico, in Caquetá, Purification in Tolima and Tame in Arauca. Through companies that are shareholders of PROICOM. He has also hired lighting themes in Cauca and Risaralda.

3:02 In short, the complaint aims to discover the way in which the crime structure feeds itself with public money from taxpayers' money to strengthen its criminal operation. At this time we have communication with the House Representative, Carolina Giraldo. How to cist good morning, very good morning, Daniel, a very special sale to the entire audience. Tell us briefly, what is the basis of the complaint that you will file with the Attorney General in the next few hours. Well, we' ve been doing this research since February and, in fact, what we found is that this company, of which these people who have already been captured for belonging to this structure of front companies of the Gulf clan, would be doing contracting related to main public lighting. In fact, there are nine departments in the country and sixteen municipalities, the epicentre of recruitment being the departments of Risaralda and Caldas. But coming as you just mentioned, to many other irrigated municipalities of the country, small municipalities, many times sixth category, where no one puts their eyes on and finally with their name or having paper companies themselves or through mixed economy companies, they almost end up taking over

4:34 the public lighting of these municipalities. How you can show the link between this engineering company and the contracting companies that work in coordination with it, with the Gulf clan. Well, there had already been a first capture, which was the capture of Alias Messi And as a result of that capture, precisely then they captured Hipólito Mendoza Sea and César Augusto Rincón. And it is these two people that we see appearing in the statutes, in the documents of PROICOM Chamber of Commerce and what happens just when they enter to become part of this company?

5:20 This company also has an atypical capitalization, which ends up doubling its capital in less than six months. And this is just the way, as they say they were operating in other front companies that have already been denounced, but this has not been denounced. One of the people mentioned by you your complaint as part of this alleged operation, of this ferrate and money laundering is Mr Hipólito Mendoza. Whether he has had links with the House of Representatives. You want to tell us what those links are. Yeah, I think it' s amazing that I found this in the middle of this investigation. The truth, this name, that of Hipólito Mendoza, is almost that the leading thread of the investigation And when we found that it had been part of the team of the legislative work unit of former congressman Cristóbal Rodríguez Hernández de Boyacá, of the U Party and that after that, it had also been contractor of the First Vice President, when the Vice President was Oscar Leonardo to call. For one is absolutely surprised, because when the police do the capture, what he says in his statement is that this network is since the year two thousand nine and here they were working in the Chamber in the year two thousand eighteen two thousand nineteen before being captured. And precisely everything about proico coincides with these dates,

6:53 that is, when they were working here, this criminal structure was already on fire that the s Mr Sea says in a part of the resume that it presented for its counter- pateration by the first Vice President of the House on the recommendation of Congressman Oscar Villamizar, who has been Commissioner of the Police. What you could have found out about that, Madam Representative, about that, we' re actually putting the paperwork to the prosecutor precisely to finish doing these investigations. She, with her prosecution team, has, let' s say, every opportunity to do the investigations. What we did was we sent a petition right to the Ministry of Defence. At the Ministry of Defence we are told that with that charge, specifically no one of that name appears, but perhaps in other settings of the Ministry yes, so we don' t know. The Gulf clan is right now in an approach within a peace process with the Government under the name of the Gaitanist army of Colombia, how the discovery of such illegal operations should influence that process being carried out by the Government.

8:15 Well, the first thing is that I think that in this case and in all cases of peace processes, there' s going to be a clear commitment to the truth, that is, if really these people have already been captured. We are talking about alias month and alias half lip and polito Mendoza, César Augusto Rincón make larral available. I think there might be a chance. But the other thing that is also enormously serious here is that we are talking about public procurement and we are talking about the public lighting of the municipalities of the country where probably leveraged in a network of money laundering then come to have a lot of contracts full of probable irregularities. Yes, the issue of corruption also has to be on the environment, because many thanks to the representative to the House, Carolina Giraldo, whose denunciation can bring out a network of companies operating as fronts of leaders of the so- called Gulf clan. This was today' s Colonel report. Thank you very much.