Karen Abudinen expands the complaint against Katherine Miranda for the use of the term "abudinear"

This Monday, January 24, the former ICT minister Karen Abudinen went to the Supreme Court of Justice to expand her complaint for libel and slander against the candidate for Congress Katherine Miranda and her partner León Fredy Muñoz, for using the term "abudinar".

According to RCN Radio, the request for the expansion was registered after Miranda installed some campaign billboards with the message "Don't abuse the country" to promote her second aspiration to the House of Representatives for Bogotá.

It should be remembered that Abudinen had to leave office after learning of part of the framework with which the company Centros Poblados won the most ambitious tender of the ICT Ministry and appropriated an advance of 70,000 million pesos for an Internet connection project of the more remote areas of the country. The term "abudinar" arose from the controversy that involved the former minister and was related to national corruption.

Katherine Miranda's response

Given the space for expanding Abudinen's complaint, Congresswoman Katherine Miranda asked to give a free version before the Supreme Court of Justice. “My duty is to do political control and take care of the taxes of all Colombians. Without fear, we face corruption. Faced with the complaint, I tell him: See you in the Supreme Court of Justice, ”Miranda said, reviewed by La FM.

In turn, the representative to the Chamber assured in an opinion column in the digital media KienyKe that the billboards in Bogotá are related to the corruption scandal. “I do not forget that 70 billion were lost in her hands and that is why I have installed 5 billboards in Bogotá to remind her that she must answer for them,” Miranda wrote. In addition, she reiterated that she will not remove the banners until the money that was lost appears.

She also clarified that despite the complaint she is facing, Miranda was not the one who invented the word. "It was the outraged citizens, in a feeling of impotence to see how they embezzle the state's money without consequences," she said in the column.

What's the investigation?

On September 6, the Attorney General's Office announced the opening of a formal disciplinary investigation against the person in charge of that government portfolio, Karen Abudinen, to determine her links to the case. She indicated that the objective is to transfer the pertinent evidence that helps to clarify the case "in compliance with the principle of procedural economy."

Despite the fact that more than four months have passed since the investigation began, there is little certainty of the recovery of the resources delivered to the corruption network. According to the magazine Semana, the actions have not advanced and the ICT Ministry cannot deliver a certain date for the recovery of public assets.

Although there are assets under embargo, they have not been valued to see if they can complement the value of the 70,000 million. The defendants point out that the money was invested in equipment to execute the contract, although there is evidence that it was spent on personal items belonging to Tapia and other characters. Although prosecutor Francisco Barbosa assured that he had resolved the case in record time, that process has not guaranteed repair of the damage caused.

Meanwhile, hundreds of schools in the country, as is the case in the department of Amazonas, do not have the minimum conditions to restart face-to-face classes and offer quality education to minors.

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