Antonio Sanguino: "I will continue to go to each and every one of the citations that the Supreme Court does to me"

The Minister of Labor, Antonio Sanguino, In a letter to public opinion, he celebrated the decision of the Special First Instance Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to preclude the investigation by the Related facts in 2008 for influence traffic.

However, the official refrained from pronouncing against the determination of the High court to continue with the accusation against him for the 2009 acts of the same crime.

“The Special First Instance Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice has just resolved the requests made by my defense at the hearing last May 26 within the process that is advanced against me. In the brief the Special Chamber resolves to declare the partial nullity of the hearing of charges and consequent for the facts of 2008 that for alleged crime of influence peddling ”he said.

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He affirmed that the facts for which he is apparently accused in 2008 were filed.

“Faced with the facts of 2008, the final archive of the related action is ordered and consequently orders the preclusion of the investigation. Instructs the Secretariat of the Chamber in application of the principle of anonymization, in defense of the good name, so that it proceeds to advance the efforts to exclude or name of the public databases that record The record of the file reason for the file, ”he said.

He indicated that “these determinations of the highest court of Colombian justice are a sign that with full constitutional and legal guarantees of due process citizens can defend our rights, often struggled by speculations and irresponsible media accusations.”

Sanguino said that It will continue to defend its innocence in this whole judicial process.

“As my attitude has been in these 18 years in what I have been defending my innocence, I will continue to go to each and every one of the citations that the Court makes to the culmination of the process without any delay or distraction maneuver,” he said.

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Decision of the Supreme Court of Justice

The First Instance Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the call to trial against the Minister of Labor, Antonio Sanguino, for being allegedly involved in the corruption scandal of the so -called ‘contract carousel’ of Bogotá.

In its decision, the Supreme Court determined to deny the prescription of the events allegedly occurred in 2009, where Antonio Sanguino is accused of allegedly Having influenced the finger assignment of the new Usme Hospital, in southern Bogotá.

According to the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, this contracting in contracts would have been given in exchange for a 10% coima by one of the contractors convicted in the framework of the investigations.

“According to the accusation brief, Antonio Ermid Sanguino Páez during the first quarter of 2008 and November 2009, acting as a councilor in exercise for the capital district of Bogotá, as an author improperly used influences derived from the exercise of His position, for his own benefit and Mr. Héctor Julio Gómez González, ”indicates the brief of the Supreme Court.

Although, the Supreme Court of Justice filed the investigation in relation to the facts of 2008, ordered to continue with the accusation against him for the crime of influence peddling in relation to the acts allegedly committed by Sanguino in 2009.