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Andrés Calle said it was “disgraceful” that he was involved in Hungarian corruption activities

The current president of the House of Representatives, Andrés Calle, mentioned the corruption scandal in the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd) to bring drinking water to communities that do not have this vital service in La Guajira and in was it connected to the previous one. the deputy director of that entity, Sneyder Pinilla.

“We are facing the worst infamy and the truth will be known, and Justice will tell it,” he said before the Noticias RCN television news cameras, as he left the Congress building on Tuesday night, May 7.

In these media they also investigated the alleged conversations that are supposed to be included in the cooperation matrix with the justice system that the former Hungarian leader will present to the Prosecutor’s Office with a view to allowing the principle of opportunity within the study. performing for these facts.

“Up and instability in terms of Justice,” he said briefly on Noticias RCN when he quickly left, together with his security scheme, the headquarters of the Legislature.

The representative of the Liberal Party did not speak, although he appeared at the plenary session recorded in the group that he is leading a new debate within the bill that tries to prevent bullfighting in Colombia, despite being reprimanded by some of his colleagues, reported in the newspaper El Espectador.

In that newspaper they highlighted the intervention of Congresswoman Jennifer Pedraza, from the Trust and Commitment movement, who reminded him that he was among those who freed former Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez in the Charges Commission, when they started a preliminary investigation for him. activities within the corruption network by the Brazilian multinational Odebrecht.

“He has every right to defend himself in justice. Obviously, I’m not criticizing it, that has to be done by the Colombian justice system. But the House of Representatives respects itself. Andrés Calle must step down from his position,” they said from Pedraza’s statements.

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According to the alleged WhatsApp conversations, Calle would have offered 1,000 million pesos to accelerate the process of social reforms that the Government of the president, Gustavo Petro, is trying to implement in the country.

In the newspaper El Tiempo they published the WhatsApp conversations where Pinilla, following instructions from the former leader of Hungary, Olmedo López, organized a meeting with Calle in the city of Montería (Córdoba), taking advantage of a trip to the area.

These meetings seem to have taken place on October 14, 2023, when they apparently met at the young politician’s house after he shared his situation and expressed his intention that he would get it.

“Good morning Dr, writes Sneyder Pinilla, deputy managing director of Ungrd. I arrived in Monteria at half day (sic)”, the text that the former official sent that day to the president of the Chamber, he apparently replied with enthusiasm “The director sent me to meet you. I’ll tell you where I’ll be at that time. It’s a rather reserved place, please,” said Pinilla in the conversation, to which Calle Aguas agreed, inviting him to the his apartment.

In another conversation he said: “I have already arrived in Monteria. I am leaving for Pto.escomddio for an event and around 11 am I return to see each other,” said the former officer.

To that the Liberal congressman replied: “Okay. I will wait for you at noon (sic). ” At 12:56 midnight on October 14, Pinilla notified the Chamber president that he was ready for the meeting. It was then that Andrés Calle suggested that they could meet in his apartment: located in the building K62 La Castellana. By Infobae

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