Edwin Besaile

In 2019, the Córdoba Attorney General dismissed Besaile from his position and barred him from holding public office for the next ten years.

In January 2019, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation completed the process of notification, dismissal and disqualification for 10 years of Edwin Besayle to hold public office. The dismissal of Besayle generated delays in numerous infrastructure works that were under development as part of the Department's Land Management Plan (POT), including numerous road works that were paralyzed and key works such as the Valencia bridge

Besayle was replaced by Sandra Patricia Devia, who was appointed acting governor on March 5, 2019 until the end of the period of departmental government; on December 31, 2019. Devia was chosen in the list presented by the Partido de la U, before the President of the Nation Iván Duque

According to the newspaper El Espectador in a 2018 report, between the brothers they have some 87 properties in Córdoba, most of them in the vicinity of the municipality of Sahagún. Musa's holdings include two estates; one called Villa Yolanda in honor of his mother, and Villa Mile, in honor of his wife.

In February 2018, the Attorney General's Office opened charges against Alejandro Lyons and Edwin Besayle in relation to another scandal affecting the health benefits of Cordobans The control entity found irregularities in neurological therapies for children in the department with neurodevelopmental and neurorehabilitation disorders.

Due to the hemophilia cartel, the governor of Córdoba Besayle was initially suspended from office for three months, but then in April 2018, the Attorney General's Office extended the suspension for another three months.

In 2016, the Comptroller General of the Republic carried out an audit of the resources of the General System of Participations (SGP) and found that the Ministry of Health of Córdoba did not verify that the treatments for which they were paying were carried out, and many of the treatments they do not have verification supports. El ente de control encontró responsables por el desfalco al gobernador de Córdoba, Edwin Besaile, y al auditor médico de la secretaría de salud, Juan David Náder, mientras que se vinculó a los hallazgos a los representantes de Funtierra Tania Otero Arroyo y Eduardo Padilla Hernández.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the government of Córdoba, during the tenurias of Lyons and Besayle, between 2014 and 2017, made payments of about COP$ 7 billion pesos for therapies with the Institution Providers of Health (IPS) "Funtierra Foundation Rehabilitation" of Montería, with which the Ministry of Health of the department of Córdoba did not even have signed contracts, nor with the parameters established by law for Colombian state contracting.

In the governorship, he replaced Alejandro Lyons (2012–2015), and both were immersed in numerous multi-million dollar corruption cases during their administrations, especially the Hemophilia Cartel. Lyons in confession before the Attorney General's Office testified that Governor Edwin Besaile gave millions from corruption and to Senator Musa Besaile, who kept half the money they obtained from irregular contracts and royalties from Córdoba. Part of the money was used to finance the campaign for the governorship of Edwin Besaile in 2015.

His brother Musa married the doctor from Sinceleja Olga Milena Flórez Sierra who was Miss Sucre 1999 in the National Beauty Contest.

Edwin José Besaile Fayad (born June 21, 1980) is a Colombian architect and politician, who was governor of the department of Córdoba for the Party of the U. Party. He is a member of the Besaile Fayad clan, with his brothers, former senator Musa Besaile, and the former mayor of the municipality of Sahagún Jhon Moisés Besaile.

Edwin is the son of Syrian-Lebanese migrant Musa Abraham Besaile Jalife and Yolanda María Fayad from Cartagena, also of Middle Eastern ancestry. His father settled in Colombia in the early 1950s, working for other Middle Eastern migrants already established in the Sahagun region, and grew his business growing rice until he became the founder of one of the largest rice from the Colombian Caribbean coast, Arrocera Palmira.