He Council of Ministers last Tuesday, February 4, it continues to talk about, not only for the chain of renunciation requests by the ministers of the current government, but also for details related to the Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign.
And in the middle of the meeting, the same head of state urged that there were attempts to infiltrate Diego Marín Buitragothe aforementioned ‘Tsor of smuggling’, whose extradition from Portugal is in process.
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Augusto Ramírez, squire of the first president for more than 30 years and now head of the National Protection Unit, said in the session, broadcast live on national television that Marín, known as the alias of ‘Dad Smurf’, He had tried to enter the campaign and linked one of these episodes with the current office chief Armando Benedettiwhose appointment has generated disagreement in the cabinet from the first day.
Diego Marín Buitrago
Xavier Vendrell’s role
However, the information that is available to date reveals that it was through Xavier Vendrell, the controversial Spanish advisor of the Petro President 2022-2026 campaignwhom Marín delivered money.
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Last Friday, February 7, Time’s investigative unit called Vendrell to learn about its version about these accusations, but did not respond. However, the magazine ‘Change’, two days later, published that Marín delivered 500 million pesos in a briefcasethat Augusto Rodríguez warned about the donor’s background, and that the instruction was given to return them immediately.
This is striking because Vendrell has been ensuring that his role in the campaign only had to do with the electoral witnesses. In addition, in the file for the apparent rape of campaign, Ricardo Roa, then manager of the same and now president of EcopetrolHe said he was the only one authorized to channel the contributions.
Xavier Vendrell
How is research at the CNE?
Time consulted official sources of the National Electoral Council (CNE) On how this episode to research on the alleged rape of ceilings, taking into account that this contribution, allegedly returned, was not consigned.
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“That supposed contribution was not known and the current process is already advanced. We are in the test stage, but the case will be evaluated to define whether a new line of research is opened to establish what happened to that contribution”They explained.
And they pointed out that the version in this file is that Roa was the only one who channeled the contributions and who sold only the issue of electoral witnesses.
CNE
What has said intelligence?
About the above, members of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI) They told him to the same newspaper that for several months they had information about the issue of Marín’s contribution.
“Not only tried to arrive through foreign advisors (Vendrell), but of three other channels“They explained.
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About the Spanish advisor, they affirmed that the version was true that the reverse of the money to alias ‘dad pitufo’ was partial. Vendrell would have said that a historical pact militant took 580 million pesos.
Another version indicates that a DNI counterintelligence official knows very well what the contribution route was and how much it was returned. While in the CNE there is not much time left to investigate this issue, for prescriptions, the case can be opened in the Prosecutor’s Office.
THE TIME – INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
