In all this scandal, also known as “nanny gate”, the former ambassador of Bogotá in Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, is involved, whose “tapped” telephone conversations have plunged the presidency of Gustavo Petro into a crisis
Colombian President Gustavo Petro assured this Saturday, June 10, that Óscar Dávila, a police lieutenant colonel allegedly involved in the case of illegal wiretapping of the nanny of a high-ranking Colombian government official, took his own life. His pronouncement occurred one day after the body of the police officer was found inside a vehicle in Bogotá.
“It is not true that the colonel was found dead or that there were two shots in his body (…) Near his house he sent his driver for a bottle of water, he left his pistol on the seat and when he returned in front of him he He committed suicide with a shot in the hundred with the pistol that he had left, “reported the Colombian president.
According to official information, Dávila, who was assigned to the security of the Presidency, would have taken his own life after receiving “several calls from the press” and attending an investigation in the Technical Investigation Corps of the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office.
The lieutenant colonel of the police, Oscar Dávila, assigned to the security of the presidency of the Republic, has died by suicide.
Near his house he sent his driver for a bottle of water, he left his gun on the seat and when he returned in front of him he committed suicide with a… pic.twitter.com/FME8CxgeE1
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 10, 2023
This event occurred in the midst of a judicial inquiry carried out by the authorities of the neighboring country to establish whether there were irregularities or abuse of power in the interrogation to which Marelbys Meza, a former babysitter at the service of Laura Sarabia, who was head of Gustavo Petro’s cabinet until the beginning of June, when a scandal broke out over the theft of $7,000. Meza was accused of that crime.
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According to Semana magazine, Dávila was in charge of the anticipatory office, where Marelbys Meza underwent a polygraph test and from where “the strikes would have been ordered against the former babysitter.”
Also involved in this scandal, known as “nanny gate”, is the now ex-ambassador of Bogotá in Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, whose “tapped” telephone conversations have plunged the presidency of Gustavo Petro into a crisis.
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