Former congressman David Alejandro Barguil Assis declared himself willing to submit an investigation before the Special Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which opened a formal investigation for facts associated with alleged irregularities in contracts and influence peddling.
Through a statement, the former presidential candidate assured: “I have always been respectful of the decisions adopted by the judicial authorities in the exercise of its powers and this will not be the exception. That is the behavior that has characterized me throughout my life as a public servant.
The magistrates linked the former presidential candidate to this process as a possible perpetrator of the crimes of influence peddling, own bribery, financing of electoral campaigns with prohibited sources and alleged determiner of contract without compliance with legal requirements.
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“I will attend to all the proceedings and subpoenas that the honorable Court sees fit to carry out, it will be in that scenario where I will give all the explanations that are requested of me, in full compliance with the rules that govern the criminal process’‘, indicated Barguil.
that court investigates the alleged improper intervention of the politician before an entity of the National Government to obtain resources from the so-called indicative quotas, in order to finance works in the municipality of Galeras (Sucre).
Apparently, the supposed purpose was to obtain an economic return for that management. The events under investigation would have occurred between 2017 and 2018.
The magistrates of the Special Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice will define in the coming days the date for former presidential candidate David Barguil to appear in the investigation, for these facts associated with irregularities in contracting.
RCN Mundo learned that This criminal process originates after a certified copy that was sent at the time within an investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office General of the Nation, against several unqualified people.
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Said request for investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office originated another process in the Supreme Court of Justice, which led to the corresponding summons to the investigation against Barguil.
Other politicians to free version
On the other hand, the Special Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice scheduled three other free version proceedings within the proceedings against Senator Didier Lobo Chichilla, the representative to the Chamber, Carlos Alberto Carreño Marín, and former senator Miguel Pinedo Vidal.
