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Documentos financieros y obligaciones tributarias vencidas de una cooperativa de salud bajo intervención estatal
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Coosalud: 63 overdue tax duties after intervention

The complaint filed with prosecutors asks for an investigation into the management of the Coosalud cooperative during its state intervention between December…

--- The context --- The Coosalud cooperative, parent of the health insurer of the same name, was under intervention by the Superintendency of the Solidarity Economy between December 2024 and September 2026. During that period, management rested with special agents appointed by the state. The insurer returned to its former owners after the Administrative Court of Bolívar ordered the provisional suspension of the intervention, and the cooperative once again came under Jaime González, its legal representative for decades. In that setting, the complaint filed with prosecutors became public. The complaint was filed on October 28 and asks investigators to examine how the cooperative was managed during the intervention. The document assigns specific conduct to each official according to their period and their role, and it relies on figures taken from reports before the Dian tax authority. --- The facts --- The central finding is fiscal. According to the Dian reports cited in the complaint, the cooperative and five of its companies accumulated 63 overdue obligations worth 4.752.904.501 pesos. Of that total, 55 correspond to withholding tax and VAT worth 2.920.870.730 pesos. As of the date of the reports, none of the 63 obligations had been paid, and in six consecutive periods of 2026 the cooperative filed its withholding declarations without paying the full amount. The breakdown by entity shows the scale of the backlog. The cooperative accounts for 11 obligations worth 1.544.637.000 pesos. Eventravels S. A. S. records 24 overdue obligations worth 1.411.561.000 pesos, Soluinnova S. A. S. totals 14 worth 975.596.000 pesos, and Inversa records 4 worth 674.361.000 pesos. Inversiones Portichelly S. A. S. appears with 6 obligations worth 133.578.501 pesos and Alma Servicios S. A. S. with 4 worth 13.171.000 pesos. The group also includes Red Humana S. A. S. and Alma Servicios Empresariales Inteligentes S. A. S. The complaint also describes outflows of resources whose cause is not accredited. It mentions payments in August 2026, the last month of the intervention, to companies for which no contract has been found, and advances by Soluinnova S. A. S. worth 399.723.034 pesos to a contractor represented by the contracting party's own alternate, with no work evidenced for what was delivered. Between April and May 2025, two renovation contracts were signed with a construction company from Atlántico for 222.153.878 pesos and for 750.000.000 pesos, with rapid advances and cash withdrawals lacking proof of delivery to the contractor. Another central element is how operations were financed. According to the complaint, the last special agent acknowledged in writing that the cooperative obtained liquidity by repeatedly postponing payment of its taxes, through a systematic deferral of its tax obligations. The issue was addressed on May 25, 2026, when a payment agreement for the oldest obligations was proposed, but as of September 2026 no agreement had been reported to the Dian. Even so, the financial track of the recovery plan was shown as 100 percent fulfilled. --- The positions --- The complaint asks that each person be investigated for what they did or failed to do in their period and in their role. The special agents, for failing to remit what was withheld and for the disposition of the cooperative's resources. The administrators of the subsidiaries, for the advances and the withdrawals. And the superintendent who appointed and oversaw the agents, for failing to prevent, while aware of the alerts, what she had the duty and the means to prevent. The document lists conduct such as withholding-agent omission, embezzlement, dereliction, disloyal administration, breach of trust, and ideological falsehood in a public document. In response, former superintendent María José Navarro maintains that the tax liabilities did not arise from the intervention. In her view, a global figure of 63 obligations does not specify when each one arose or which entity, concept, and administrator it belongs to. Navarro also states that since February 2026 the cooperative and its affiliates faced a liquidity crisis due to the suspension of payments by the health insurers, and that a strict policy of spending prioritization was adopted to guarantee operations while overdue payments were regularized. --- What remains unknown --- There is still no prosecutorial decision on the scope of the investigation and no statements from the special agents and administrators named that would allow each figure to be tested. It is also unknown whether the obligations before the Dian were paid after September 2026, or whether the payment agreement proposed in May of that year was finalized. Each obligation still needs to be dated and assigned to an administration, a point the former superintendent considers decisive. --- Unanswered questions --- Who authorized the repeated postponement of taxes and with what reports was it justified to the supervisor? Why was the financial track of the recovery plan shown as 100 percent fulfilled if none of the 63 obligations had been paid? What real services support the August 2026 payments to companies with no contract found and the advances delivered by Soluinnova S. A. S.? When did each overdue obligation arise and what share truly belongs to the intervention period? The answers require cross-checking tax reports, contracts, and bank records. --- EPM analysis --- The case tests the very logic of state intervention. Taking over an entity means administering it to higher standards than those of the private operator, because the state acts as both administrator and supervisor. If tax arrears accumulate during that period and operations are sustained by postponing taxes, the problem stops being merely accounting and becomes institutional. At the same time, the aggregate figure must be broken down by date, entity, and responsible official before blame is assigned, and the liquidity crisis alleged since February 2026 is part of that examination. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the complaint requires a complete and documented investigation, with no shortcuts and no prior convictions, because what is at stake is the credibility of state intervention over an entity linked to health care. If the tax reports confirm arrears accumulated under official administration, the state must explain how it managed third-party resources while demanding compliance from everyone else. If, instead, the debts arose earlier or liquidity was cut off by suspended payments, that too must be proven with dates and records. In both scenarios, full transparency is the only acceptable institutional outcome for everyone.
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