The decision was supported by the Plenary Chamber of the National Electoral Council, with a presentation by Judge Renato Contreras and points out that the time to make a decision in this case has already expired, Well, this investigation began in 2018, after Iván Duque was elected as President of Colombia.
In that year, before the Supreme Court of Justice, Senator Aida Merlano stated that the newly elected campaign of President Iván Duque, He would have received about $6,000 million pesos from Merlano’s close circle, for the financing of the presidential campaign.
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The foregoing is part of the scandal known as the “White House” that exposed the network of corruption that led to the election of Merlano as congressman in 2018, said scandal was uncovered on the eve of the inauguration that the former congresswoman did not finally carry out.
The determination of the CNE was argued that according to the General Code of the Process, after the opening of the investigation and after three years or more, the electoral authority loses the capacity to act and make a decision, in this way, ending the process against the now former president Iván Duque.
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Court will not receive more evidence from Aida Merlano on electoral corruption in the Duque campaign
The Court of First Instance of the Supreme Court of Justice denied the request made by the Attorney for former congresswoman Aida Merlano to deliver the evidence on her allegations of alleged electoral corruption and vote buying for the presidential campaign of Iván Duque in 2018.
The Court pointed out that all the evidence is already in the file and that what is coming is that the dates be scheduled to give continuity to the trial by alleged violation of electoral caps “which will be limited to the presentation of the final arguments, given that the tests have already been carried out.”
