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Related: About this forumColombia trying to keep former ICT minister out of prison
Karen Abudinen
by Adriaan Alsema September 24, 2021
The prosecutor who has desperately been trying to keep former President Alvaro Uribe out of prison on Thursday claimed that Colombias former ICT minister was the victim of her own corruption scandal.
Former ICT Minister Karen Abudinen was a suspect in the alleged embezzlement of $17.6 million (COP70 billion) until chief prosecutor Francisco Barbosa assigned his right hand man to the case.
The former ICT minister resigned earlier this month ahead of a no confidence motion over her role in the alleged embezzlement of the advance payment to connect rural communities went missing.
The prosecution initially investigated Abudinen as a suspect in the alleged embezzlement, but this was given a surprising twist by prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes, who claimed the former minister was a victim.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-trying-to-keep-former-ict-minister-out-of-prison/
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From Semana, Colombian periodical:
Attention: Karen Abudinen will appear as a victim at the hearing of those captured by Population Centers
The former ICT minister will seek to be declared as a victim in the hearing for the indictment of charges against those involved in the scandal.
9/21/2021
Former ICT minister Karen Abudinen will appear as a victim at the hearing for the charges against those captured in the scandal of the contract with Populated Centers. The official will be accompanied by her lawyer, the renowned criminal Jaime Lombana.
This Monday, the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor's Office, in the cities of Barranquilla and Bogotá, captured the main parties involved in the alleged irregularities in the multimillion-dollar contract of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies for the connectivity of 7,000 points in remote areas of the country. Those captured are:
In the case of Luis Fernando Duque, he was one of the first to render interrogation proceedings at the Prosecutor's Office and there he gave details of his participation in said contract, provided the documentation that would prove that he reached the process even before he became the representative. legal of the temporary union Poblado Centers.
Duque was the legal representative of that group of companies, who assured that they made the request for a bank guarantee through an insurance broker (Rave) and it was delivered to the auditing firm of the multimillionaire contract, for review and passed the verifications. Therefore the process was fulfilled, although later the bank warned that they never issued such a guarantee.
More:
https://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/atencion-karen-abudinen-se-presentara-como-victima-en-audiencia-de-capturados-por-centros-poblados/202144/
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