Narcopayments case: prosecutor Francisco Barbosa assures that there will be no lynching in the investigation of complaints against Petro’s relatives

The Attorney General has announced that proceedings are already underway in the complaints that have been filed against Nicholas Petro Burgosthe president’s eldest son Gustavo Petro. Francois Barbosa He assured that the investigations will be carried out in an objective manner and that they will not be used to attack the president.

President Petro himself asked the investigative body to investigate his son, currently MP for the Atlanticas well as his brother Jean-Ferdinand Petro. Both accused of maintaining alleged connections with drug traffickers and dubious characters.

“It must be said that here what there are institutions, if there is a problem that deserves legal action, it will be done; If we are not confronted with this circumstance, the country will be informed of the contrary circumstance in due course,” said prosecutor Barbosa regarding the ongoing investigations.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has already received a first statement from Vasquez Daythe former sentimental partner of Nicolás Petro, who revealed to Week certain alleged meetings he knew of the deputy with the convicted drug dealer Samuel Santander Lopesierraknown as The Marlboro Manand the public lighting businessman Alphonse the Turkish Hilsaca.

Prosecutor Barbosa explained that Vásquez reiterated some of the facts he told during the interview and that these must be corroborated in the investigation, to establish a “correlation between what is said and what actually happened. existed”, as well as to establish whether the facts constitute a crime.

The facts are also examined by the attorneysince Petro Burgos is a member of the Atlanticas well as other facts, such as WhatsApp chats, in which the official allegedly applied for positions in the national government through ministers.

In the president’s request to the prosecutor’s office to move the investigation forward, the president said he was confident his brother and son would be able to prove their innocence, but he would respect the court’s findings. For now, he confirmed that he has asked ministers and government directors, who must report if their relatives make requests.

In case of Jean-Ferdinand Petrothe investigation revolves around an alleged cartel of lawyers who allegedly offered drug traffickers legal benefits or entry into the politics of total peacein exchange for large sums of money. They allegedly used the name of the president’s brother in the negotiations, so their relationship or impersonation is under investigation.

This poster was publicly denounced by the Office of the High Commissioner for PeaceDirected by Danilo Rueda. However, prosecutor Barbosa pointed out that the official complaint had not been filed and that the corresponding evidence had not been provided.

“As always, Mr. Danilo Rueda, who tells lies to the country, has not filed any complaint with the Attorney General’s office. We called Mr. Danilo Rueda twice and I must remind Colombians: it is the duty of public officials to comply with the rules when they are summoned,” said the head of the accusing body.

Rueda said he had evidence of the lawyers’ millionaire charges against the prisoners, one of them for 120 million to make a change of detention center. As he said, “the matter is in the hands of the competent authorities” to whom he asked for speed in clarifying and sanctioning those responsible for the network.

Although the prosecutor’s office is carrying out the investigations, which President Petro has also requested to be investigated, this has not been done due to complaints from the Office of the High Commissioneras Barbosa said.