Office of the Comptroller General of Colombia

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Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic
Contraloría General de la República
Agency overview
FormedJuly 19, 1923 (1923-07-19)
Preceding agency
  • Court of Auditors
HeadquartersCarrera 10 № 17-18
Bogotá, Colombia
Employees4,057[1]
Annual budgetCOP$242,019,000 (est. 2008)[2]
COP$331,942,394,271
(est. 2010)[3]
Agency executives
  • Carlos Felipe Córdoba, Comptroller General
  • Lina María Aldana, Deputy Comptroller
Child agency
Websitewww.contraloriagen.gov.co

The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Colombia (

Office of the Inspector General of Colombia
.

History

In 1923, after several years of financial crisis, President

Edwin Walter Kemmerer (known as The Money Doctor) was called the Kemmerer Mission. Kemmerer had already worked with Latin American governments; that of Mexico in 1917 and of Guatemala
in 1919.

Pedro Nel Ospina
approved Law 42 which created the Office of the Comptroller General

Up until then the Court of Auditors (

judicial and fiscal nature, but it was part of the Executive Branch. A study led by the Kemmerer Mission, with the assistance of the Colombian Finance Minister Esteban Jaramillo, recommended Congress to create the Bank of the Republic, and the Office of the Comptroller General, and to structure the laws for this function using those already existing. The Kemmerer Mission recommended the creation of the Office of the Comptroller General after considering that it could establish the necessary means for imposing a strict observance of the laws and administrative norms in the management of resources and public funds.[5]

Government introduced new legislation in

President of the Senate Luis de Greiff, and the President of the Chamber of Representatives Ignacio Moreno. The new law was approved and signed by President Nel Ospina and his Minister of Finance Gabriel Posada, and finally ratified by Congress on July 19, 1923.[6]

The Office of the Comptroller General began functioning on September 1, 1923, when Law 42 took effect. The first Comptroller General of the Republic was Eugenio Andrade, who was appointed by President Ospina. The current Comptroller General is Carlos Felipe Córdoba Larrarte.

References

  1. ^ a b "¿Qué es la Contraloría?" (in Spanish). Contraloría General. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  2. ^ "Presupuesto 2008" (in Spanish). Contraloría General. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  3. ^ Ley de Presupuesto General de la Nación 2010 (PDF), Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 2010, pp. 47–48, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07, retrieved 2010-08-18
  4. Luís Ángel Arango Library
    , retrieved 2008-11-30
  5. ^ "Historia" (in Spanish). Contraloría General. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  6. ^ Congress of Colombia (1923-07-19). "Ley 42 de 1923" (in Spanish). Bogotá. Retrieved 2008-11-30.[permanent dead link]