The Supreme Court of Justice, through its Investigative Chamber, certified copies to the Attorney General’s Office, the National Electoral Council and the Impeachment Commission of the House of Representatives to process the beginning of an investigation against the president of Ecopetrol, Ricardo Roa, and the Minister of Health, Guillermo Jaramillo. The case arises due to alleged irregularities in the violation of President Gustavo Petro’s campaign limits.
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The Investigative Chamber takes as a fact that Jaramillo y Roa, as then manager of Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign, They would be responsible for a series of maneuvers to deceive the electoral authorities and pass off as expenses of the congressional candidates millionaire payments that in reality corresponded to the electoral enterprise of the current president.
This decision It follows from the revelation that EL TIEMPO made for the first time two weeks ago.when he reported that the Court inhibited itself from continuing to investigate 20 senators from the Historical Pact for the management of campaign accounts.
Let us remember that the Chamber, with a presentation by Judge Misael Rodríguez, was supported by evidence such as the contracting of the Senate campaign with the Ibagué SAS Air Societycarried out at the suggestion of the current president of Ecopetrol, Ricardo Roa (former manager of the Petro Presidente campaign), and with the intermediation of the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
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“The (air transportation) service was not contracted for a need specific to the Senate campaign or to be used by the Senate candidates, which was raised by the candidates and for their benefit, as the general manager and the administrative coordinator of said campaign and, in addition, the legal director of the campaign tried to make clear to the consultation (…)”says the Supreme Court.
The high court also indicated that “the air transportation service contracted by the Senate campaign was truly used to satisfy a requirement and provide a service to the simultaneous campaign of the then pre-candidate Gustavo Petro Urrego in the internal consultation to elect the sole candidate for the Presidency of the Republic through the Historical Pact.”
In the 236-page document, the Court expressly points out that the maneuver with which it was possible to distribute among Senate campaign expenses what the electoral company of the then senator Gustavo Petro, who ultimately won the internal consultation and the presidential elections, would have actually spent, “It was managed centrally by the accounting team, after having the endorsement of the general manager” (Guillermo Jaramillo).
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