The authorities You already know where the director of Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil), Luis Alfonso Martínez Chimenty, and his trusted team will be on the next Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: approving and signing contracts before the change of government.
Despite the complaints about irregularities in million-dollar contracting processes that this entity is preparing, that have triggered resignations of its officials and inspections by the Comptroller’s Office, Martínez Chimenty issued a resolution enabling those days to advance contracts.
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Until August 1st
The Aerocivil resolution enabling Saturdays, Sundays and holidays to sign contracts. Photo:THE TIME
THE TIME investigated and established for the first time that nine days before a special team from the Comptroller’s Office arrived, Martínez Chimenty signed resolution 02006 giving the instruction.
“That taking into account that the contracting processes are carried out through the SECOP II platform, which operates in real time, for special reasons of the service, it is necessary to temporarily establish the validity of the internal procedures of a budgetary and contractual nature in the dependencies, regional, groups and offices in charge of the preparation and consolidation of pre-contractual documents, management, promotion, substantiation, processing, approval, signature and improvement of the procedures and processes of state contracting of the Aerocivil“, reads the document.
And he adds that, in merit of the above, “It is ordered to declare Saturdays, June 27, 2026, July 4, 18, 25, and August 1, 2026, as business days for contractual, budgetary and other administrative procedures, for purposes of legality and legal validity of all procedures related to public procurement carried out by Aerocivil. “.
Days later, the same decision was made in Dapre.
And although sources of the Aerocivil assured that they were unaware of the resolution and that it had not yet been uploaded to their official website, EL TIEMPO found it published in the Official Gazette.
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Alerts and complaints
Luis Alfonso Martínez Chimenty, director of Aerocivil. Photo:Aerocivil
For two months, EL TIEMPO reported that that entity had been approving more than 1,700 contracts and that a senior official resigned due to irregularities in a process to acquire policies and insurance.
In fact, at that time the Ministry of Transportation itself requested a special audit. And Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, the Minister of the Interior appointed by the government of Abelardo de la Espriella, warned that a radar and radio aids contract was being left tied up.
That same week, the first of July, Narda Duperly Roa Ibarra, advisor to the general management of Aerocivil, resigned, claiming that she was being forced to sign studies for a million-dollar contract. Although he did not give details, EL TIEMPO established that it is the contract for the Document Management System (SGDA) that the state company 4/72 had been executing.
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From $400 million to $12,000
Rodrigo Lara, appointed Minister of the Interior of the De La Espriella government. Photo:César Melgarejo. EL TIEMPO Archive
This newspaper investigated and established that There are emails and records in which the official asks why, if the same contract had been signed last January for 400 million pesos, it was now going to jump to more than 12 billion pesos.
(See all the articles from the EL TIEMPO Investigative Unit here)
“The argument is that a license was also going to be purchased to change the SGDA platform to a new one called Control-DOC. But in previous studies they talk about licensing and not purchasing. The licensing does not exceed 400 million pesos in the market“said an informed source.
Now, The resolution alleges that non-business days need to be enabled to meet goals and schedules.
What do the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office say?
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