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Colombia's coronavirus aid used to pay back election contributions?
by Adriaan Alsema June 18, 2020
Colombia’s Inspector General said Tuesday he was investigating how $12.5 million (COP47 billion) in coronavirus aid funds ended up in the pockets of elections campaigns sponsors.
The granting of government contracts to campaign contributors is common practice in Colombia, allegedly even during a national emergency, Inspector General Fernando Carrillo said indignantly.
The investigated contracts would involve some 77 campaign financiers in the 2018 congressional electionsand the 2019 local elections, according to Carrillo.
Eight of these financiers received almost $11.6 million through 49 contracts, the Inspector general said.
. . .
The agriculture minister,and 14 of Colombia’s 32 governors are all suspected of using the crisis to embezzle funds as well as more than a dozen mayors and members of the military, Barbosa said last month.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-coronavirus-aid-used-to-pay-pack-election-contributions/
