2023-08-03 23:03:56
With four days left to complete his first year in office, President Gustavo Petro is experiencing perhaps the most critical moment since he came to power. His son Nicolás Petro told the Prosecutor’s Office that irregular money entered his campaign, a fact that, in the opinion of some political figures, calls into question the legitimacy of his election in 2022.
In the hearing this Thursday, August 3, the prosecutor Mario Burgos said verbatim: “About the financing of the last presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro and the money that came in from said campaign, which apparently would have exceeded the limits allowed. by law, and others would not have been duly reported to the authorities. The man indicated that he did receive large sums of money from Samuel Santander Lopesierra, known as the ‘Marlboro Man’, from Gabriel Hilsaca Acosta and from Óscar Camacho.”
Nicolás Petro, the representative of the Atlantic who today has the president of Colombia in trouble.
Regarding the alleged entry of irregular money into Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign, prosecutor Mario Burgos added that “this money, with which Nicolás Petro unjustifiably increased his assets, some of them entered his coffers, and others to the campaign presidential of the year 2022, where our current president, Dr. Gustavo Petro, was elected.
On May 11, 2014, when he was serving as mayor of Bogotá, Petro trilled:
“An elected policy, whether with money from drug trafficking or from the treasury, is illegitimate and extremely weak. Colombia wants change.
Well, nine years following that trill, the words of President Gustavo Petro seem to take power.
The ‘Marlboro Man’, to whom Nicolás Petro allegedly received money for the president’s campaign, was extradited to the United States in 2002 for sending marijuana and cocaine to that country, for example.
Nicolas Petro and Day Vasquez. | Photo: Week Magazine
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Federico Gutiérrez, candidate for the Presidency of Colombia in 2022 and for whom the votes were not enough to reach the second round, ruled on the hearing once morest Nicolás Petro for illicit enrichment and money laundering.
The former presidential candidate wondered if Gustavo Petro was aware of the alleged irregular money entering his presidential campaign. | Photo: Photo: Week
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