Choroni Group: “DNA shot itself in the foot”

_ The developer of Everest Tower points out that the three annulled acts were processed, reviewed, and issued by the ADN during the current municipal administration_

The Choroni Group, the developer of the Everest Tower project, clarified today that in the public dissemination of judgment no. 0030-1642-2026-SSEN-00280, issued on July 9 by the Fourth Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court (TSA), the municipal authority failed to disclose that the three annulled administrative acts were drafted and signed by them.

“The National District City Hall (ADN) shot itself in the foot, as it was the one, through its Urban Planning Directorate, that evaluated the project, approved it, and renewed it for three consecutive years,” stated Dr. Julio Cury, lawyer for Grupo Choroni.

He pointed out that Grupo Choroni did not intervene in the preparation or internal approval of those acts. “It limited itself to requesting and receiving from the current authorities the necessary approvals to develop the project,” he added.

He stated that the DNA itself subsequently decided to go before the TSA through an action of harmfulness against its own acts, to request the annulment of what it had authorized three times. “If those certificates were incompatible with its internal regulations, it was up to the mayor’s office itself to warn about it before approving them, since no one else but it processed, reviewed, stamped, and issued them,” the jurist maintained.

Grupo Choroni highlighted that the three acts were issued in 2020, 2022, and 2023, all under the administration of Mayor Carolina Mejía, and that it acted at all times protected by the presumption of legality of the permits repeatedly issued by the National District City Hall.

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“Overturning three consecutive years of its own decisions, far from being a cause for celebration, is an institutional defeat, so, before pulling the trigger on a project in which hundreds of millions of pesos have been invested, the local entity should have made sure where it was stepping,” the jurist pointed out.

THE JUDGMENT IS NOT FINAL

Grupo Choroni explained that the decision has already been appealed in cassation before the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, accompanied by a request for a stay of execution. “The ruling lacks the authority of an irrevocably judged matter, so it is premature to present it as the outcome of the litigation. The controversy is just beginning its journey before the Court of Cassation,” explained Cury.