The Attorney General’s Office opened a disciplinary investigation into three officials of the National Tax and Customs Directorate (DIAN), for the possible omission of duties by not forwarding to the agency in charge an appeal filed by Petrobras, which would have caused a loss of resources of more than $44 billion.

The entity linked to the process the former operational director of large taxpayers Andrés Fernando Pardo (2021 – 2024) and the former operational deputy directors of inspection and liquidation, Christian Junot Quiñónez Cortés (2023 – 2024) and Gustavo Adolfo Mosquera Abello (2024), responsible for sending it to the legal resources subdirectorate.

The Delegate Prosecutor’s Office of Instruction for the Economy and Public Finance maintained that the Coordination of Intensive Tax Supervision and Settlement issued an official review settlement on December 13, 2022, which modified the private one, ordering it to pay more than $47 billion due to the difference presented between the income and complementary tax declaration for the taxable year 2018 and the proposal of the tax authority.

The control entity indicated that the taxpayer subsequently appealed, through the reconsideration appeal on February 15, 2023, without it being resolved within the following year, thus creating positive administrative silence that caused damage to public assets due to the alleged omission in the management of DIAN officials.

With the development of this procedural stage, the Attorney General’s Office seeks to verify the occurrence of the indicated events, establish whether they constitute a disciplinary offense and define whether or not those involved acted under the protection of a cause of responsibility.

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