Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Marco Bográn, former director of Honduras strategic investment (Invest-H), the state agency responsible for acquiring mobile hospitals for the country’s Covid-19 pandemic, declared this Thursday for an el Public Prosecution Service for research purposes related to a case, millionaire purchase of drugs.
A Bográn, which is at the beginning of 2020, when Honduras, through Invest-H, negotiated the purchase of seven mobile hospitals worth 47 millions of Dollars to the company Elmed Medical Systems, owned by the Guatemalan Axel Lopez, and built-in Turkey
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The arrival of the sanatoriums, budgeted to remain in the first line of health against the disease, which saturated the hospital wards of Honduras, took months and so far only one of them, that of San Pedro Sula, is working.
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July 10, 2020 That day the first two arrived |
Bográn obtained precautions and then replace the Justice of Honduras, in other causes for which it is being investigated. Prosecution has indicated that the former official is charged with crimes of public embezzlement outside of mobile hospital negotiations.
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The former director testifies before the prosecutors of the prosecution, in Tegucigalpa, accompanied by your legal representative, Marco Tulio CastroBográn appears next to Alex Moraes, former administrator of Invest-H owned by the institution during Bográn’s period.
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In July 2020, after the commencement of prosecutors’ investigations Prosecution, the overvaluation in obtaining mobile hospitals was 680 million lempiras. Bográn was accused of orchestrating a corruption network that embezzled Invest-H mainly through the purchase of sanatoriums.
A López, owner of Elmed Medical Systems Bográn He signed contracts in the negotiation with no guarantees of quality and delivery, so after the tiring wait, defects and a lack of precision in the use of the equipment in the facilities were found.
Also in July, prosecutors of the Prosecution, through operations of the Technical Research Office (Atic), seized documents of interest in Invest-H and the house fell off Bográn, On TegucigalpaThe former warden testified before Honduran prosecutors and, amid a public conviction, was accused of being head of the high-profile case of alleged corruption.
About the end of 2020an intermediate committee was formed to investigate the causes of the corruption case Invest-HTo date, members of this council have argued that hospital providers cannot be made mandatory due to the lack of contractual guarantees.
José Ernesto Leva, controller of Invest-H, described the purchase of the hospitals as “the worst scam” as they lack the quality guarantees necessary to operate in Honduras. Problems in the air conditioning system prevent it from opening in different sections of Honduras