The Impeachment Commission of the House of Representatives opened a preliminary investigation to the President Gustavo Petro for alleged illegal contributions to his 2022 campaign from the company Daily Copdedicated to cryptocurrencies and involved in a scam, that organization reported this Thursday.
The decision indicates that he ordered “the opening of a prior investigation against the President of the Republic, Dr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego“, which derives from the complaint filed by the Uribista councilor of Bogotá Daniel Briceño.
The Commission, the only entity authorized to investigate a president, also summoned Briceño and the Technical Research Body (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office for next November 19 to “a virtual procedure to ratify your complaint“.
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The investigation, which seeks to determine whether money from illegal sources entered the 2022 campaign, will be led by the Congressmen Wadith Manzur (Conservative Party), Leonardo Gallego (Liberal Party) and Alirio Uribe (Democratic Pole).
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On April 19, Víctor Eduardo Muñoz, lawyer of businessman Ómar Hernández Doux-Ruisseau, one of the people linked to cryptocurrencyda Daily copassured Caracol Radio that his client “knows, knew and verifies the existence of income, directly from the illicit money resulting from the collection, which entered directly into the campaign of today’s president Gustavo Petro“.
The money, the lawyer said, was “agreed in kind, directly, with the acquisition of a King Air plane that the Sadi company had“, what is “an aspect of cryptocurrency” and “was capitalized with people’s money“.
Gustavo Petro
Hernández and five other people were sent to prison in October of last year after the Prosecutor’s Office charged them with the crimes of money laundering, conspiracy, massive and habitual collection of money, and illicit enrichment of individualscharges they did not accept.
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Daily Cop was an investment model in virtual currencies, which promised profits in Colombian pesos of 0.5% daily and 12% monthlywhich resulted in a scam in which more than 100,000 people lost their money.
This is not the only case in which Petro’s presidential campaign is being investigated. Last October, the National Electoral Council (CNE) opened an investigation and brought charges against his 2022 campaign.
Gustavo Petro
The CNE considers that Petro, as a candidate; his campaign manager, Ricardo Roa, and other members of his team will have to respond “for the alleged violation of the financing regime for electoral campaigns“, since it is suspected that they exceeded the established spending limits and resorted to prohibited sources that they did not declare.
EFE
