The former ambassador of Colombia in Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, did not offer statements to the Prosecutor’s Office of the neighboring country for the alleged “illegal financing” of the campaign for the presidency of Gustavo Petro; due “to the threats that he would have received in recent days,” he said
Armando Benedetti, former Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, attended a summons from the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office, where he refused to testify for the alleged “illegal financing” of the campaign for the presidency of Gustavo Petro; claiming to have received threats.
Benedetti was quoted after the audios revealed a few weeks ago by the magazine Week where the politician, without sparing vulgarities and offenses against the former chief of staff Laura Sarabia and against Petro, threatened to reveal alleged irregularities in the financing of the presidential campaign.
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For this reason, Benedetti met this Friday, June 23, with a prosecutor delegated to the Supreme Court of Justice, but “he assured that he could not testify at the moment due to the threats he had received in recent days,” according to the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement. .
The former ambassador claimed that he will file a complaint for “the crime of threats as soon as he collects sufficient evidence to support the type of intimidation he has received,” added the accusing body.
He also asked that the Police and the National Protection Unit (UNP) improve his security conditions and those of his family.
Benedetti appeals to “right to remain silent”
For his part, Benedetti assured in another statement that he accepts his “fundamental right to remain silent”, since, through the press, he has learned that he is on “the list of those investigated in a case of alleged corruption in the Government » and has not received a «subpoena to this proceeding».
The former ambassador is a key player in the crisis in Petro’s closest circle, which began with the theft of a briefcase of money from Sarabia’s house and includes illegal wiretapping and a police officer assigned to the Presidency who died by suicide.
With information from EFE
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