:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/ZA2XTGYLDVHTXO64W4ZA6K2KBY.jpg "Abelardo De la Espriella challenged Daniel Quintero to submit to the polygraph 1")
The Mayor of Medellin Daniel Quintero and the media lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella They used social media for a personal confrontation.
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The first to strike was De la Espriella who, on Friday February 10, launched: “The miserable thief of Daniel Quintero will be remembered as the criminal that he is: Samuel Moreno paisa. Enjoy your last days at large, while justice is knocking on your door. We’ll see how brave you are, “Little Painter”! (ALDE) #UribeSeRespeta #ElSamuelMorenoPaisa”, published the lawyer precisely on the day of the death of the former mayor of Bogotá.
Quintero’s response came late in the afternoon of the same day. The local president, close to the national government, wrote:
“Right to petition De la Espriella: Did you make a settlement with the American justice system for having received money from drug traffickers? Did the negotiation include you giving up bandit defense?
in a second trill Daniel Quintero He pointed to the lawyer’s relationship with drug trafficking and his involvement in illegal business with the United States. Here’s how he posted it on his Twitter account:
“If so, does the government of the United States know that it circumvents the sanction through law firms that continue to defend drug traffickers with the same corrupt practices and that it is dedicated to threatening political leaders in Colombia?
but true to form Abelardo de la Espriella He did not remain silent and responded to the president’s accusations and argued that he would have nothing to hide and invited Daniel Quintero:
“Now the ‘paint’ thief made me laugh. I’ll make it easy for you, rascal: let’s polygraph and see who the criminal is. And a bet: which one ends up in jail? You measure you a mythomaniac coward? (ALDE)”.
The fight between De la Espriella and Quintero began on November 27, 2021 when the lawyer filed a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation against the mayor, on the grounds that the president did not present the information relating to his declaration of assets and income, as required by law.
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According to De la Espriella, during the years of government, Quintero did not update the declaration of assets and income in the public information and management system (Sigep), “since the last report dates from February 7, 2020 , which means it could be committing a serious offense, as it was due to update in the months of June and July 2021,” the media lawyer reported at the time.
But that wasn’t the only complaint he made Abelardo Espriella before the Attorney General’s Office against the Mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero Calle. On December 15, 2021, it was the second.
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The incident happened at an airport terminal in the United States where he answered questions from a young man.
According to the lawyer, after requesting authorization from the Council of Medellín to go to an event in Barcelona between November 15 and 20; However, on November 19 and 20, the mayor traveled to Miami, a destination for which no permission was sought, “meaning he used public resources for trips that were not in its official agenda.
As part of the requested disciplinary complaint, counsel requested the dismissal and disqualification of Daniel Quintero: “Thus, given that the configuration of flagrant violations of the disciplinary regime has been demonstrated and that article 44 of Law 734 of 2002 establishes dismissal and invalidity as a sanction for very serious misconduct, I request that this sanction be imposed to the mayor”.