Nicolás Petro bought a mansion, an apartment, a Mercedes and luxury accessories in one year: everything the tax accusation says

Nicolás Petro Burgos earned 13 million pesos ($3,200) a month, but he spent as if he earned 200 million ($50,000). That is one of the conclusions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Colombiawho on Tuesday accused the son of the president Gustavo Petro for alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment.

Deputy of the department of Atlántico, Nicolás Petro and his ex-wife Daysuris Vásquez were captured on Saturday in the city of Barranquilla and transferred to Bogota.

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“I think that we would all have ourselves elected as deputies, 200 million pesos, please! Mr. Nicolás, you do not have any other economic activity that generates income, none. In fact, Mr. Nicolás, in his income statements presented for the year 2020 and 2021, he stated that he only had income derived from his work as a deputy for the Atlantic Assembly, with assets for the year 2020 of 52’800,000 pesos “said the prosecutor Mario Burgosaccording to Semana magazine.

“He earned 13 million pesos, a comprehensive salary of approximately 18,700,000 pesos as a deputy”, continued the prosecutor, who assured that this was his only source of income.

Nicolás Petro Burgos and his ex-wife Daysuris Vásquez on Tuesday in Bogotá, during the hearing for charges. (EFE).

The harsh account that the prosecutor made of the evidence he has ended up breaking Nicholas Petrowho with tears in his eyes declared before a judge that he is willing to collaborate with justiceaccording to a review of the accusation published by the newspaper El Tiempo.

“I want to announce Colombia that we have decided to start a collaboration process, where I will refer to new facts and situations that will help justice. I do it for my family and for my baby, who is on the way”, Petro Burgos said.

Two hours earlier, in the imputation proceeding, Nicholas Petro had pleaded not guilty by not accepting the charges read to him by the prosecutor, El Tiempo reported.

Before you decide to collaborate, the prosecutor Mario Burgos had offered him to accept his responsibility to receive a reduction of 50% of the possible sentence that would fall against him.

The prosecutor Burgos He said that the penalty for money laundering and illicit enrichment is about 12 years in prison.

The Prosecutor’s Office also charged the ex-wife daysuris vasquez for money laundering and violation of personal data.

Nicolás Petro, Daysuris Vásquez and Gustavo Petro.

The AFP agency recalled that after an infidelity, the ex-wife of Nicholas Petro accused him of receiving large sums of cash, supposedly intended for his father’s presidential campaign in 2022, but which actually went into his pocket and used them to live a luxurious life in the city of Barranquilla.

According to the prosecutor Burgosthe convicted drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra gave Nicholas Petro about 400 million pesos (102,000 dollars).

While Alfonso “El turco” Hilsaca, a businessman accused in the past by the prosecution of financing paramilitary groups and planning homicides, would have given him the same amount, according to the prosecutor.

This Thursday there will be a new hearing, where the country hopes to find out what will be the new elements that it will contribute Nicholas Petro to reduce his possible sentence.

“How much can they destabilize Gustavo Petro the denunciations that the deputy will deliver to the Prosecutor’s Office Nicholas Petro? It is curious that the ‘soft coup’ that the government was talking about did not take place, but instead a ‘hard coup’ that comes from the same presidential family is taking place”, political analyst Juan Carlos Flórez wrote on Twitter.

The EFE agency recalled that the illegal financing of political campaigns returned to the public discussion in June, after Armando Benedettithen ambassador to Venezuela who was key to Petro’s electoral victory in 2022 on the Atlantic coast, threatened to reveal what he knows about the illegal financing of that campaign.

File photo dated August 7, 2022, showing Nicolás Petro Burgos, son of President Gustavo Petro, together with his ex-wife Day Vásquez, at the president’s inauguration ceremony. (EFE/Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda/FILE). (Mauricio Duenas Castañeda /)

Prosecutor Burgos assured on Tuesday that the money he received Nicholas Petro was used to buy a mansion for 1,650 million pesos (408,000 dollars) in Barranquilla.

“That property, you sir Nicolas Petro and Daysuris Vasquez They received a lease, but then jointly stated with Mrs. Daysuris del Carmen their intention to purchase, agreeing on a total value of 1,650 million pesos, which is why the promise of sale contract was made, appearing as buyer Mr. Cesar Emilio Vásquez Buendía ( Day’s uncle)”the prosecutor recounted.

for this property Nicholas I would have paid an advance of 699 million pesos.

According to the prosecutor, he also negotiated the purchase of a house in tubara (Atlantic) for 334 million pesos (83,000 dollars).

In addition, Nicolás Petro bought a luxurious car Mercedes Benz in 200 million pesos (50,000 dollars), an amount that he paid in cash. The vehicle was transferred to the name of Daysuris Vásquez, to later put it in the name of this father and sister., who would not have the economic capacity to assume said expense.

According to the research, Nicholas Petro made purchases and paid cash at luxury stores like Salvatore Ferragamo and Carolina Herrera.

The prosecutor pointed out inconsistencies between his tax returns and his bank movements.

For example, he said that in 2022 he received 251.4 million pesos ($64,000) for his work as a deputy, but he supposedly spent 1.6 billion ($408,000).

“Where does that money come from to your coffers?”the prosecutor asked.

“None of it is wages or leasing,” said the prosecutor, who recalled that in 2022 the total income of Petro Burgos they were 280,331,394 pesos (about 70,000 dollars).

In total, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, in 2022 Nicolás Petro would have illegally increased his assets by 1,053 million pesos (263,000 dollars). “They are not the result of their work, but of the clandestine income of money from 2021 to the end of 2022,” Burgos said.

Source: Elcomercio