HOY CONTINÚA LA AUDIENCIA CONTRA EL EXALCALDE CARLOS ALBERTO MAYA LÓPEZ.

WORK WOULD HAVE DESIGN PROBLEMS
YOY THE HEARING CONTINUES
CANTRA THE FORMER MAYOR CARLOS ALBERTO MAYA
LÓPEZ.

The preliminary hearings of the five defendants in the case of Avenida los Colibríes continue.
Today, the judge, Third Criminal Court of Guarantees will announce her decision on the security measure for the former mayor Carlos Alberto Maya López, the former secretary Milton Hurtado and the intervenor Carlos Alberto Rojas Prieto.
In parallel proceedings, the contractors José Gabriel Vargas Vellejo of the Consorcio Prosperidad Cerritos, and Carlos Alberto Ballesteros, second intervenor, advance in the investigations of their defenders.
Lawyer Renato Marín, Vargas Vallejo’s defense attorney, requested his immediate release, arguing that the technical evidence collected by a private investigator would demonstrate errors by the Prosecutor’s Office and personal social reasons that would show that his client is not a danger to society or to the process.
Marín refuted the prosecutor’s accusations, stating that his client and his consortium won the tender legally and that there was no agreement to divert resources from the State.
He pointed out that the unforeseen events in the works were due to problems with the terrain, the topography and the lack of planning in the designs and the land management.
He added that the process has generated an unprecedented social alarm in the city by talking about billions of pesos allegedly appropriated; however, the Prosecutor’s Office itself has recognized that there is still much to investigate, that is, it rushed to make some charges without having completed the investigation and without having defined the amount that was supposedly lost, which is not typical of the current penal system.
With documents and technical evidence, he refuted the evidence of the Prosecutor’s Office, indicating that many of the unforeseen events were due to the lack of definitive studies and designs.
For example, he mentioned that a roundabout had to be moved, which required additional works such as walls and ramps, making deceleration lanes and moving water pipe networks that were not known to exist there.
Marín also explained that the preliminary studies contemplated three lanes, but two were put out to tender due to budgetary restrictions at that time.
With the additions approved, which is a normal procedure and not a crime.
The lawyer was emphatic that Vargas Vallejo was not the person in charge of the payments and that his partner, Carlos Guillermo Suárez, was in charge of the majority of the contract.
Marín stressed that Suárez has relevant information that he has not given to the prosecution or to his client.