Rodolfo Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga and current presidential candidate, was investigated some time ago for possible acts of corruption when he was leading the portfolio of the city of Santander, after authorities found that the son of the presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Hernández, apparently signed an agreement stipulating to distribute commissions if contracts related to the El Carrasco landfill were awarded to Vitalogic. In the process, the candidate who has seized the anti-corruption flag as part of his campaign, has mentioned that there were mistakes on the part of his son but that these are not a crime as mentioned by the authorities.
On April 3, another matter came out that would be related to the case and that interferes with Hernández's wife, Socorro Oliveros de Hernández. Public Question revealed that Oliveros purchased 2 properties between 2016 and 2017 for a total of close to one million dollars ($3,765 million at the current exchange rate) in Florida, United States and that the purchase of these properties came a week after his son Luis Carlos and other partners agreed to collect the consortium's commission Vitalogic.
According to the media, Luis Carlos Hernández asked Luis Andelfo Trujillo, his former partner, on July 21, 2016, to help him get $50,000 because his mother had to leave “the other week to sign the papers for the purchase of the apartment in Miami.” But before this, the presidential candidate's son had already bought Jhon Horacio Rueda Polania $50,000 from Jhon Horacio Rueda Polania through Trujillo, according to a private chat.
The change of dollars to alias “Jhon Cabezas” puts the Hernandez in trouble, since the subject was captured in 2021 due to an investigation into money laundering and in his past, in 2010, he had already been investigated for money laundering related to drug trafficking. After the first property acquired, Socorro Oliveros de Hernandez purchased the second property in the United States on April 6, 2017, for which he paid $630,000.
According to Razón Pública, the two properties were sold some time later, but these properties that amounted to more than one million dollars would have been largely acquired with the commission received by the candidate's son for the Vitalogic agreement that continues the investigation against Rodolfo Hernández and his son.
The Prosecutor's Office accepted the principle of opportunity for a witness in the case of corruption that splashes on presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández
José Manuel Barrera, formerly manager of the Sanderean capital's cleaning company during the mayor's office of the now presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández, will be the star witness in the process of apparently rigged hiring that municipal entity took place.
In the newspaper El Tiempo, they reported that the Attorney General's Office granted the judicial benefit of the principle of opportunity to Barrera on the condition that he give up all those involved in the corruption case that spills the presidential candidate.
According to the Bogotá newspaper, Barrera would testify against Luis Carlos Hernández Oliveros, son of the former mayor of Bucaramanga, who is said to have leaked privileged information about municipal contracting and charging bribes if the Vitalogic firm stayed for a decade with the management of waste in that city, in an agreement for 750. billion pesos. According to that media outlet, Hernandez's heir was caught on video carrying out this possible act of corruption.
Meanwhile, in the magazine Semana they reported that the former manager of the Aseo company is answering for the crimes of conclusion of contracts, contract without compliance with legal requirements and ideological falsehood in a public document, which he initially did not accept, but which under this principle of opportunity will allow him to make profits judiciary, if it fulfills within one year its commitment to give away those involved in the corruption network.
“The term of suspension of criminal proceedings shall be one (1) year, in the interest of the postulate fulfilling its commitment to collaborate with the justice system and appear for trial as a witness for the prosecution against the persons indicated in the collaboration agreement,” they quoted in that medium of the judicial document.
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