The Chancellor Laura Sarabiathrough his X account, he claimed to have given to the Attorney General’s Office a package of audios unknown by the public position in which its interlocutor is the Current Interior Minister Armando Benedettiwith whom it maintains several differences.
According to the official, he gave the audios to the accusing entity on his last visit to the facilities in Bogotá to declare Within the investigation that advances to the Petro President 2022-2026 campaign for an apparent irregular financing; which could be reactivated with the unpublished information delivered to the VII Prosecutor’s Office before the Supreme Court of Justice, which has assigned the investigations.
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This incident occurred on February 28 of the current year, when its defense, headed by the Lawyer Jorge Mario Gómezwas the one who delivered a statement in which he said that his client “He reiterated that he never participated in the collection or resource management, ratifying that the candidate was emphatic that all economic contributions should be managed and received only by the campaign manager“
Prosecutor’s Office
Little less than two months later, the chancellor personally referred to the details of said meeting with the team of researchers. “In my last statement to the Prosecutor’s Office I delivered audios and conversations with Armando Benedetti, even audios that have not been known for public opinion. I have asked the Prosecutor to Listen to me in the next few days to expand the investigation“, says the trill of the afternoon on Tuesday.
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The visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Prosecutor VII Delegate before the Supreme Court of Justice It was as witnessfeet is not formally linked to the investigation for the alleged illegal financing of the campaign of the President Gustavo Petro.
In the uncovered audios several months ago, Benedetti is heard to tell Sarabia that he, supposedly, got 15,000 million pesos on the Caribbean coast for Petro’s candidacycomplaining about the treatment than in government.
Chancellor Laura Sarabia
“I did 100 meetings (…). 15,000 million pesos, moreover, if not for me, they do not win. So, even if it is a hypocritical, one goes and receives people, but the treatment that you and the president gave me yesterday, Marica, I do not know, also what I am going to tell you is not a threat (…) I see that this can be empowered, kicking, child”Said Benedetti.
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The chancellor, as a defense, He has focused on that he was not in the key moments that the authorities investigate these facts, because Sarabia’s tasks were secretarial and logistics with the agenda of the then presidential candidate.
On the criminal level, the accusing entity has several investigation fronts open that point to people such as Ricardo Roa Barragánthen manager of the presidential campaign and current president of the state oil company Ecopetrol; while at the administrative level, the National Electoral Council (CNE) It also has the magnifying glass on the alleged stops in Petro’s presidential aspirations.
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