Armando Benedetti’s sister resigned from the Comptroller’s Office for “personal matters” to the contract of more than $11 million that she had

In the last hours it was confirmed that Angela Maria Benedettisister of the Colombian ambassador in Venezuela, Armando Benedettiwas appointed as an adviser in the Comptroller General of the Nation. However, days later, he resigned from the post.

The former ambassador of Colombia in Panama, during the government of Juan Manuel SantosI was in the office of the comptroller general Carlos Hernan Rodriguezafter the ratification of ordinary resolution number 016004, dated January 30, 2023.

The sister of the national government official held, according to the Comptroller’s decree, the position of grade 2 adviser, in which, according to the Administrative Department of the Civil Servicewill receive a salary of $11,094,351, which is what is stipulated that collaborators who exercise that dignity should receive.

According to the highest fiscal control body of the Colombian State, Angela Benedetti “complies with the minimum legal requirements to occupy the position of grade 2 adviser in the office of the comptroller”, says the decree with which his appointment was ratified.

Although on social networks they did not let the issue go unnoticed and questioned the alleged lack of experience of today’s new worker at the Comptroller’s Office, the truth is that it did not last as long as expected. In her resignation letter, addressed to the comptroller Rodríguez himself, Angela Benedetti assured that due to “personal matters” she had to leave the position for which she had been hired.

Although the resignation of the sister of the Petro ambassador in Venezuela is from last February 17, the lawyer Daniel Bricenoa staunch opponent of the government of President Gustavo Petro, viralized the hiring of Benedetti in the Comptroller’s Office and left a harsh criticism in which he implied that the Executive would already have a bishop for, supposedly, take care of your interests in the entity that seeks the proper use of public resources in Colombia. “The mice taking care of the cheese”, asserted the also tweeter, akin to the right.

On social networks, Armando Benedetti’s family presents herself as “Mother, constitutional lawyer, defender of human rights, feminist and one hundred percent sucker.” Like her brother, she has gone through different governments and has been linked to some of the most influential politicians in recent times in the nation.

Before being an ambassador during the Santos government, Angela Benedetti was Liberal Party councilor, led by former President César Gaviria. Then, in 2020, he worked at the Ombudsman’s Office under the leadership of the current head of that entity, Carlos Camargo.

In the 2022 elections, and given the closeness of his brother Armando with the political project of the Historical Pactthe now ex-adviser to the Comptroller’s Office campaigned fiercely against the closed list that this group presented in the elections that defined the new representatives and senators.

Subsequently, given the eventual victory of the presidential candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, the lawyer also supported him and, several Internet users say, after his fleeting passage through that institution, he was going to be the file that the president had in the Comptroller’s Office due to his alleged closeness to the Government.

It should be remembered that Juan Carlos Fernandezhusband of Angela Benedetti, who is also the brother-in-law of the Petro ambassador to Venezuela, was named as business advisor of the Presidency of the Republic, in category 14 and whose salary amounts to $9,451,323, as stipulated by the Public Function. With these appointments, the close ties of the Head of State with that prominent family from Barranquilla.