After the explosive confessions made by Nicolás Petro, son of President Gustavo Petro, to the Attorney General’s Office became known in which he assured that his father had knowledge of the entry of illegal money into his presidential campaign, the defense of the former deputy del Atlántico reported that it could take legal action against the prosecutor handling his case for allegedly having “leaked” the videos of his statements to the Colombian justice system.
The defense team announced the measure they could take against the prosecutor who is leading the case of the eldest son of the president of Colombia, after on the morning of September 30, Semana magazine revealed sections of the interrogation (contained in video) that Petro Burgos carried out before the Prosecutor’s Office for the process being carried out against him for alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment.
According to the former Atlantic deputy’s confession, his father (the Colombian head of state) knew from the beginning that his campaign was being financed with irregular money and that well-known businessmen and politicians were involved in it. Among those splashed are Armando Benedetti, Christian Daes, Euclides Torres, the current congressman Agmeth Escaf, and even the first lady of the Nation, Verónica Alcocer.
“Because I mentioned it to him several times, he knew it; He, in the cs, when we traveled to events, Pedro Flórez always went, so he and I talked about the financing, which Euclides financed. Benedetti always emphasized it in my presence, that it was Euclides who was financing the events and the campaign,” Petro Burgos said during interrogation. When asked what his father’s reaction was, the former deputy said: “He always stayed silent.”
Nicolás Petro’s defense would take legal action
After knowing what Petro Burgos said during his interrogation with the Prosecutor’s Office, his defense informed Caracol Radio that he could take legal action against the prosecutor who is leading the case for allegedly having leaked his statements to the prosecuting entity.
“Nicolás Petro’s defense team points out that the Prosecutor’s Office “leaked” videos of the former deputy’s statements before the control body about alleged irregular money that would have entered his father’s presidential campaign,” the radio station reported.
“The objective was to create a “media show.” “They do not rule out taking legal action against the prosecutor in the case,” the media added.
So far, neither Nicolás Petro, nor his father, the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro, have spoken out against the explosive statements revealed by Semana magazine.
The date for the accusation hearing of Nicolás Petro is set
The scandal that has generated the revelation of the statements that Nicolás Petro gave before the prosecuting entity, occurs after the Attorney General’s Office established that the accusation hearing against the former deputy of Atlántico for the crimes of money laundering and enrichment illicit already has a date.
In the indictment that the judicial body filed before a court in Barranquilla (Atlántico) last week, it was established that the hearing will take place at 9:00 in the morning on November 20, in person at the Atlantic capital.
The prosecuting body made the decision to bring Petro Burgos to trial after warning that he had not provided the evidence that he promised to deliver publicly, in order to clarify the alleged case of electoral corruption in his father’s presidential campaign.
Although the future of President Petro’s eldest son is still uncertain, the newspaper El Tiempo learned that, if the former deputy from Atlántico is found guilty of the crimes of money laundering and illicit enrichment, he could receive a sentence of 15 years in prison. jail. With Infobae
