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Colombia's comptroller general holds politicians responsible for $1B dam debacle
by Adriaan Alsema December 4, 2020
Colombia’s comptroller general said Thursday that one presidential candidate and two former governors will personally have to account for the $1 billion lost due to negligence at the country’s largest hydroelectric dam project.
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Decades of controversy
The project was conceived in 1962 and and started by Medellin energy company EPM in 1978 when former President Alvaro Uribe was infrastructure manager.
The 2018 incident that triggered investigations by the Comptroller General’s Office, the Prosecutor general’s Office and the Inspector General’s Office was only the latest.
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal is also investigating HidroItuango because of extreme violence and mass displacement around the construction site during the armed conflict.
The extreme violence by guerrilla and paramilitary groups allowed EPM to cheaply buy out farmers occupying land needed for the project.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-comptroller-general-holds-politicians-responsible-for-dam-debacle/
