Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Marco Bográn, former director of Strategic investments in Honduras (Invest-H), the state institution in charge of purchasing mobile hospitals for the covid-19 pandemic in the country, said on Thursday before el Public Ministry for investigative cases related to a case, the purchase of millions of drugs.
A Bogran, who served as head of this entity at the beginning of the year 2020, when Honduras, through Invest-H, negotiated the acquisition of seven mobile hospitals worth 47 millions of Dollars at the enterprise Elmed Medical Systems, owned by the Guatemalan Axel Lopez, and built-in Turkey.
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However, the arrival of the sanatoriums, budgeted to remain in the front line of health against the disease, which has saturated the hospital wards of Honduras, has lasted for months and, so far, only one of them works, that of San Pedro Sula.
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July 10, 2020 The first two arrived that day |
Bogran obtained precautions and then replacement righteousness Honduras, in other cases for which it is being investigated. Public ministry indicated that the former official is accused of crimes of public embezzlement, external to the negotiations by the mobile hospitals.
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The former director testifies before the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, in Tegucigalpa, accompanied by your legal representative, Marco Tulio Castro. Bogran appears next Alex Moraes, former administrator of Invest-H during the Bogran period, owned by the institution.
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In July 2020, after the prosecutors’ investigations began Public ministry, the overvaluation in obtaining mobile hospitals amounted to 680 millions of lempiras. Bogran was accused of orchestrating a network of corruption that he embezzled Invest-H by, in particular, by buying sanatoriums.
A Lopez, owner of Elmed Medical Systems, Bogran He signed contracts during the negotiations without guarantees of quality and delivery, so that, after the exhausting wait, they found in defective installations and the lack of precision in the use of the equipment.
Also in July, prosecutors from Public ministry, through operations of Technical Research Agency (Attic), confiscated documents of interest in Invest-H and raided home Bogran, on Tegucigalpa. The former director testified before Honduran prosecutors and, on the basis of a public conviction, was accused of being the head of the high-profile case for alleged corruption.
About the end of the year 2020, an intervening commission has been set up to assess, investigate and determine the causes of the corruption case in Invest-H. To date, members of this council argue that hospital providers cannot be required due to the lack of contractual guarantees.
José Ernesto Leva, controller al Invest-H, described the purchase of hospitals as “the worst scam” because they do not have the quality guarantees needed to operate in Honduras. Problems with the air conditioning system prevent their opening in different departments of Honduras.