The main observation of the failed contracting process was linked to the signing of a receipt for the 41 vehicles, which stated that the units arrived in Boliva but it was not true. 44 arrived instead of 41.
The ambulances that were acquired late last year in an irregular manner by the Governor's Office of Potosí will arrive this Friday at the Chilean port of Iquique. The shipment will arrive in the name of Governor Jhonny Mamani, despite the fact that the company Estefals Logistics had been awarded the contract. An interesting fact is that 44 vehicles arrived, according to the report, despite the fact that the purchase was for 41.
According to the cargo manifest generated by Chilean Customs and to which EL DEBER had access, these vehicles were shipped to the Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates. The import documentation includes a piece of paper with the letterhead of Estefals Logistics, the company that was awarded the supply of the motorcycles, and the name of the buyer, who is the first authority of Potosí.
The origin of the motorcycles, as stated in the manifest, is Japan and they were sent by the company Ghassan Aboud Car Trading. The company that will receive them in Chile is Harmony, which is not a Toyota importer for Bolivia. Humberto Huanca, the owner of Estefals, worked with these companies to obtain the contract with the governor of Potosi, who is now listed as the buyer of the ambulances.
EL DEBER attempted to contact Jhonny Mamani, but his office indicated that the authority would not comment on the matter as they are awaiting the results of the investigations by the Public Prosecutor's Office
On January 23, after the disclosure of irregularities in the contracting process, Governor Mamani alleged "force majeure" reasons to cancel the contract with Estefals Logisticis.
The main observation of the failed contracting process was linked to the signing of a receipt for the 41 vehicles. This document attested to the arrival of the vehicles, but none of these units had touched Bolivian soil on December 31, 2021, the date on which they were "received" by government personnel.
On that day, checks were also issued in favor of Humberto Huanca's company, but the process was rejected by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, according to the investigation carried out by this newspaper.
"The ambulances will arrive, but there will be no owner to receive them. The logos of the Governor's Office of Potosí will be removed," said Huanca after Mamani's decision to cancel the contract and then added: "The ambulances were conditioned in Dubai, according to the Ministry of Health's regulations. We are going to have to sell them to private institutions, hospitals." "We are going to have to look for a client who wants them," he insisted.
Huanca then said that the capital with which he operated was from "a supplier" whom he did not identify and pointed out that his purpose was not to lose the Bs 1.5 million he credited for the guarantee bond. His company was created, according to Fundempresa documents, in September 2021 with a capital of Bs 100,000, an amount that covers 25% of the price that was to be paid for a motorized vehicle.
Huanca testified at the end of February at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Potosí. There he presented himself as a "seller" and not as a vehicle importer. He pointed to Osvaldo Mariscal as the "supplier" of the 41 ambulances. However, this third implicated party is not in the contract 215/2021 signed by the governor in November 2021.
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