Evidence continues to emerge regarding alleged payments by drug traffickers to a group of lawyers who promised to include them in Total Peace as peace managers

In the project of total peace Different figures have been created to be able to give a role to government officials and members of armed groups who allow the processes to move forward. One of those that has created the most controversy is that of peace managerswho are people who work for the dissemination, development and implementation of peace in society, in this specific case, the majority are people who are in prison, but they are an important face of the outlaw groups.

The controversy arose for two reasons, one because opponents of the peacebuilding project and conception of the Government aseguran que no se les debería dar salida de los reclusorios a las personas que han cometido crimes y la segunda, porque hace algunas semanas se hizo pública la denuncia de que algunos narcos podrían ser parte de este proceso, tras pagar una suma a alguien que aseguró What if they pay an average of 800 million pesos they would automatically be included in Total Peace as managers.

According to the first complaints, the people allegedly behind the said company are the president’s brother, Gustavo Petro, Jean-Ferdinand Petro and the lawyer Stone ChildThey call themselves victims. However, after being called to testify before the prosecution, both assured that their names would be used by people who want to discredit the project and the government.

But the complaint did not stop there, because the newspaper of The weather mentioned that with the Office of the Prosecutor since UNITED STATESthe authorities already have evidence, including an audio in which it is heard that a capo imprisoned in the North American country allegedly handed over to certain lawyers, whose names are unknown, the sum of 600 million Colombian pesos.

“At this meeting there were lawyers, and they were talking about problems, when he told them that he had control of it, and that next week they were going to give them 600 million pesos”, we hear in one of the audio recordings sections it was allegedly recorded by one of the prisoners.

In addition, there are two other Colombian drug traffickers who have decided to reactivate their collaboration with the authorities of this country and have assured that they are ready to talk about the money and payments that are requested that only those incarcerated in the United States had the objective of collecting 2,500 million pesos.

For his part, the Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda, he assured that no one in the Government has authorization outside him to look at which profiles and which people would eventually be able to participate as peace managers. In addition, it would be a group of lawyers who take advantage of the situation to negotiate political and legal favors.

“These steps have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous people and certain lawyers accustomed to haggling over political and judicial favors, today they intend to take advantage of confusion and deception”, Rueda pointed out a few days ago.

And to add: “When the gears of the conflict stop, their profits also stop (…) I have never sought to benefit anyone in court. I have never had influence in circles of power (…) I would never put a price on my work for peace and I would never betray the principles of integrity and altruism that I inherited tireless fighters like Eduardo Umaña, Josué Giraldo, Yolanda Cerón and Father Xavier”.

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