Olmedo López, director of the Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD), this Monday -in a statement- it was stated that 40 tankers taken to carry water to La Guajira were not abandoned at the Uribia military base.
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The asset announced that they were adapted to enter service after social leaders condemned tanker trucks being stopped for several days without distributing a single drop to farms. But right now the focus is on the way tank cars are acquired.
EL TIEMPO investigated and detected for the first time: 40 tankers were purchased for 46.8 billion pesos from a company registered in Cúcuta through a private deal not listed in Secop.
The company is called Impoamericana Roger SAS and its sole shareholder is 26-year-old Pastuso Roger Alexander Pastas Fuertes, who appears to have trained as a veterinarian.
Pastas Fuertes acquired the company At that time it was called Comercializadora Agrodomínguez SAS and was mainly dedicated to the wholesale trade of building materials and hardware..
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In addition to increasing the company’s capital by 45 million pesos, Pastas Fuertes changed its name to Impoamericana Roger SAS and It expanded its corporate purpose to trade, import and export groceries and canned goods, distribution of “all forms of meat obtained from dead animals for human consumption” and import of vehicles.
And although there are Strong Pastas They mention Mr. Celis in Cúcuta (the firm’s headquarters) as the sole shareholder.
EL TIEMPO contacted the company’s founder and first owner, Jorge Alberto Domínguez, who assured him that he would not sell the company to Pastas Fuertes.Young tanker supplier of La Guajira.
“I negotiated for my company with Mr. Elmer Francisco Celis Ramírez, the ‘el chamo’ who was killed last year in the Bavarian region of Cúcuta for robbing him.“, Domínguez told this newspaper.
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And he added: “I can’t tell you how much I sold it for, but I can only say that I don’t know Mr. Pastas Fuertes.”
EL TIEMPO reviewed all documents Impoamericana people mention Roger SAS and Celis Ramírez, whom they actually know as a plastic importer from Táchira in Cúcuta (Venezuela).
Appears as president in documents board of directors and secretary. This board appointed Pastas Fuertes as director.
When Celis Ramírez was killed in Cúcuta while the National Risk Management Unit was preparing the contract for the purchase of the tanker.
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According to authorities, he was in the park In the center of the city, 300 Años shot him twice in the chest when three hitmen approached him and took the bag in which he was carrying 13 million pesos in cash.
The events occurred on September 26, 2023. A month later, the National Risk Management Unit approved the supply order for tanker trucks and the trading order with Impoamericana Roger SAS was already ready.
Documents regarding the millionaire purchase only include Pastas Fuertes, who was the first to communicate with EL TIEMPO. He said he learned about the job because the UNGRD sent him an invitation to quote via email.
He also said that his company is currently providing hardware supplies to the UNGRD.
He did not answer when asked whether he had experience in tanker import and sales. Now that the name Elmer Celis has surfaced, he has not responded to the role the murdered businessman played in his company and the source of the capital they used for the truck business.
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When EL TIEMPO asked Pastas Fuertes whether the UNGRD had made any comments on the 45 million plus capital of 5 million for the organization, he replied that the organization had not made any observations.
This newspaper also found During this government, Impoamericana provided elements of humanitarian assistance to the UNGRD to provide concurrent and secondary support to the municipalities of Medio Baudó.Bajo Baudó and Bahía Solano are in the Chocó department.
The Comptroller’s Office has already announced that it has sent a special commission to La Guajira to investigate the incident.
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Source: Exame
