Colombia's highest court gets dragged into Inassa probe
Colombian prosecutors asked the lower house of congress to open an investigation into former constitutional court judge Jorge Pretelet, following accusations that he was involved in a bribe allegedly paid by water holding Inassa.
The prosecutor's office said in a press release that it obtained information on an alleged agreement between Pretelet and Inassa that involved the former issuing a favorable ruling for the company's subsidiary Recaudos y Tributos (R&T) in 2012 during arbitration proceedings between the latter and the city government of Santa Marta on the revision of R&T's contract for the modernization of the city's tax collection system.
The bribe, prosecutors say, was paid through "fictional" contracts signed by R&T.
The ruling issued by Pretelet ended up being voided by the same constitutional court in 2014. The magistrate stepped down from the country's highest court in 2016.
Prosecutors said that the information surfaced during investigations into the Acordeón probe, which focuses on Inassa's alleged mismanagement of resources of Barranquilla water utility Triple A. The probe as led to the seizure of 89% of the latter's shares that were owned by Inassa, a move that has been criticized by the Madrid city government, as Inassa is owned by the Spanish capital's water utility Canal de Isabel II.
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