Colombia's great coronavirus heist: Part 1 Let the robbing begin

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema April 9, 2020

Colombia’s comptroller general said Wednesday that watchdog entities found evidence that $20 million (COP80,000million) meant to confront the coronavirus pandemic has been embezzled.

In an interview with RCN Radio, Comptroller General Carlos Felipe Cordoba said that his office, the prosecution and the Inspector General’s Office found irregularities in some of the 37,000 contracts that have been granted to combat the crisis.

The irregularities would have taken place in the two weeks after President Ivan Duque announced major investments in healthcare and poverty prevention.

Let’s steal from the poor!

Cordoba found, among other things, “inflated costs in contracts signed by mayors and governors in different areas of the country, which we are monitoring to prevent them from making a killing of such a pandemic.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-heist-part-1-let-the-robbing-begin/

[lagomorph777]

1. As in, our government in the district of Columbia, right?

(No I don't mean Muriel Bowser's administration; I mean Trump's)