In the ‘eye of the hurricane’ is the son of Gustavo Petro, NIcolás Petro after his ex-partner Day Vásquez told “Semana Magazine” that her ex-husband received 600 million pesos from convicted drug trafficker Samuel Santander López and another large sum to alias the ‘Marlboro Man’.
(Read: Petro asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate his brother and his eldest son).
Likewise, that Nicolás Petro had rreceived money from the businessman the ‘Turk’ Hilsaca, who has been accused of having links with paramilitaries, but that have not yet been judicially verified.
The woman also told the aforementioned medium that Petro’s son received other money from “people who have had a bit of a dark past. From Mr. (Samuel) Santander López Sierra (aka the Marlboro Man). He was extradited for 20 years (convicted of drug trafficking and conspiracy). Everyone knows that and now he aspires to the Mayor’s Office, if I’m not wrong, of Maicao (La Guajira). Nicolás received money from that man, more than 600 million for his father’s campaign. That never legally reached the campaign because he kept that money, and so on. A man from Cartagena, Turco Hilsaca, I think his name is; he also received him in my apartmenteither”.
(Keep reading: They suspend the decree with which Petro assumed regulation of services).
The complainant also revealed how these payments were being made and assured that the money never entered the campaign. Also, that the President never found out what was happening.
Vásquez assured that On February 1, he told Gustavo Petro about what his son would have done. “(The president) was worried and disappointed as well because he had no idea about that. That Nicolás was going to get into trouble and therefore he would also end up in trouble because of his son. He is the son. But I told him: all this, I have always said, was behind the president’s back. The president had no idea about this,” he said.
The complainant He also assured that he had several audios, chats and tests pTo prove that what he said was true. He even assured that part of the money was going to be used to buy a luxurious house in Barranquilla.
Through a statement, Nicolás Petro said that he would never He had not been linked to the ‘Total Peace’ process either before or during the electoral campaign. He also denied having met or received any “favor” from questionable characters.
He supported the request that his father made, in the last hours, to initiate an investigation of him. Regarding the accusations of his ex-partner, Petro said that he does not know Santa López or “Turco” Hilsaca.
In the last few hours,The attorney general Margarita Cabello maintained that a disciplinary process had already been ordered against Nicolás Petrowho is a public servant.
(Read: Another one who leaves: the Vice Minister of Mines leaves Minminas).
“I ordered my disciplinary team to immediately open an inquiry or investigation, according to the circumstances, regarding the son for being a public servant, he is a deputy of the Atlantic Assembly and therefore it is up to us to open the corresponding investigations to take, then of the evidentiary debate, the corresponding decision,” said the official.
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