Evidence shows that up to 55,000 people from the Metropolitan Area were housed in the system, most of them without authorization and others with complete ignorance on it, as demonstrated by the swedish computer forensics group Qurium in coordination with the media.
This fact became known after a citizen complaint in 2019 regional elections performance, involving the former mayor of Pereira and today senator Juan Pablo Gallo, the current mayor Carlos Maya, the former representative of the Chamber Diego Naranjo Escobar, the company GoDaddy, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia, Senator Samy Meregh and the former president and permanent leader of the Colombian Liberal Party César Gaviria Trujillo.
In this way, several citizens and contractors were urged by the entity to offer their testimony, according to their consent and evidence provided, in relation to the pressure exerted by the mayor and public officials to use the logistics capacity of the Metropolitan Area in favor of Carlos Maya and Diego Naranjo Escobar, comments that to date they were only Vox Populi.
For his part, Civil Engineer Carlos Alfredo Crosthwaite, pointed out that this behavior, denounced previously: "this was a modus operandi since several contractors had told me similar events", including in the Governor's Office.
Among them is one with an objective: ”Installation, implementation, training and production of a system to collect information on site and online” executed through the minimum amount modality and valued at 44 million pesos.
[23] There it was found proven that public officials within various entities did exercise electoral functions with the urgency of their positions and hierarchy, among them Gallo, causing an imbalance in terms of the other candidates.
However, after receiving the rejection of multiple citizens on social networks and media calls due to his threats, the mayor presented a public apology, which apparently prevented the threatened person from filing a criminal complaint against him.