Last Thursday, March 2, the president Gustavo Petro he asked the Fiscalía General of the Nation open an investigation process against his brother John Ferdinand Petroafter rumors that he had links with criminal gangs with the intention of “sneaking” into the “total peace” project of the current president.
In the same way, the president would have asked the members of his cabinet have a much more strict and rigorous behavior with your family membersasking his ministers to “They will not accept any type of influence peddling and intermediation”.
In this situation, John Ferdinand Petro broke his silence and, through a letter, He referred to the court order that his brother ordered against him.
“I request that you value as genuine his principles of honest man, who, as no other president has ever done in the history of our country, faced with the slightest conjecture, which he calls rumors, decides, without any consideration, to place his own suffer this public ridicule, which undoubtedly crosses the border of what is strictly fraternal, to place us as a target of insulting attacks until the truth finally emergesPetro wrote.
However, the brother of the current president stated that “He fully shares the content and the sound purpose of the statement, which is none other than the absolute tranquility that assists him about the fact that his brother can be subjected to all kinds of moral and patrimonial”.
Similarly, he added:However, I must clarify that I am not an upstart on the subject of peace, since, as a former minister of the Interchurch Commission for Justice, Peace and Reconciliation and of the Latin American Commission on Human Rightsnon-governmental organizations, with a different epicenter of action, and without communicating ties with the Peace Commission of the current government, headed by Danilo RuedaI have developed a silent work throughout remote territories, in the midst of communities, which has never implied the offer of benefits to convicts in exchange for gifts”.
Finally, Petro closed the statement mentioning that “In the end, the only irrefutable truth is that my modest and normal levels of patrimonial well-being, with a tendency to deteriorate, are for public scrutiny, at the disposal of the Prosecutor’s Office, an entity that, in an interview with Prosecutor Barbosa, the day February 8, 2023, after hearing my version, despite the desire of those who are related to the discredit of the Petro Urrego family, esteemed victim of the fateful situations in which they intend to implicate me”.
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