In November 2015, local company EMGESA - a subsidiary of the Italian multinational ENEL, which built the Quimbo dam - accused Miller Dussan and Elsa Ardila, former president of ASOQUIMBO (Association of Those Affected by the Quimbo dam), of obstructing public roads and affecting public order. This charge, which carries between two to five years in prison, relates to a mobilisation in 2012, that was organised by several local NGOs and civil society organisations, including ASOQUIMBO, to protest against the damage to a local bridge caused by EMGESA.