Petro accuses the Colombian prosecutor of attacking the Constitution by delving into his campaign

The Colombian president, Gustavo Pedroaccused the attorney general, Francisco Barbossato deliver a “blow against the Constitution”, after that entity asked the Chamber of Deputies Committee and other organizations to investigate the financing of its 2022 electoral campaign.

Petro He responded in this way to a statement released last night by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in which he indicated that he had notified the control bodies about the alleged income of undeclared money for his presidential campaign, based on statements by his eldest son, Nicolás Petro Burgosprosecuted for money laundering and illicit enrichment.

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“The attorney general certifies copies against me, based on a non-legal interrogation where his entity’s interrogator asks questions about me, a question that is a real blow against the Constitutionsince I am a citizen, as a senator then and as president now”he stated Petro.

The president also criticized “in an aberrant way, a magazine publishes the interrogation of my son, when the law does not allow the announcement those documents that irresponsible and criminally they were handed over to him”.

Last Saturday, Semana magazine published videos of an interrogation at the Public Ministry in which Petro Burgosthe president’s firstborn, revealed that his father knew about alleged irregular money who joined the campaign with which he won the 2022 elections.

In this interrogation, Petro Burgos He highlighted that his father “I knew perfectly well” thatEuclides Torres, businessman from Barranquilla, “He was the one who financed the campaign,” money that is apparently illegal because it was not reported to the National Electoral Council (CNE), according to the president’s son.

“And in an even more aberrant way, during my son’s interrogation they talk about the financing of an act apparently by businessman Euclides Torres that occurred five months ago Before starting my campaign, In other words, it is not covered by the electoral campaign law.”added the president in his message this Tuesday.

In an apparent admission that he knew what happened, Petro He criticized that neither the Public Ministry nor the magazine “It didn’t even occur to them to check the date of the event to see if that act, the manifestation of P in Barranquillawas sheltered by campaign finance law”.

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Magnifying glass in the campaign

The demonstration that Petro refers to took place on September 10, 2021 in Barranquillawhere the stage was decorated with a huge red letter “P”, around which the participants gathered.

According to Petro, “the attorney general certifies copies to the House Impeachment Committee about a fact that is not at all irregular: a political meeting, which is a right, and which did not belong to the campaign simply because it was held five months earlier” of elections, when apparently he was not limited by electoral laws.

Based on the statements of Nicolas PetroO Prosecutor’s office announced last night that the prosecutor delegated to the court responsible for the case sent “copies before the Impeachment Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, the Chamber of Instruction of the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Electoral Councilso that (…) the alleged occurrence of crimes related to financing from the Presidential campaign” of Petro in 2022.

When being Petro an official protected by presidential jurisdiction, the House Impeachment Committee It is the only body competent to investigate and eventually judge him.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, these notifications were made because during an interrogation that took place on August 2, Pedro Burgos “made some statements about the alleged materialization of criminal conduct such as the apparently irregular inflow of money into the doctor’s presidential campaign Gustavo Francisco Petro Urregocurrent president of the Republic of Colombia”.

Source: Elcomercio

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