The Prosecutor’s Office heard the complaints made by the former senator of the Historical Pact Gustavo Bolívar last week in an interview in Semana. According to Bolívar’s declarations, in Congress a Network trafficking in which women are hired by congressmen to provide sexual services.
The television writer and director assured that some of the women victims of this network would have approached his office in the Senate at the time to denounce what had happened. However, according to Bolívar, these people have not made their complaints public for fear of reprisals they may suffer.
The Attorney General’s Office announced this Monday that it opened a ex officio investigation in response to Bolívar’s statements on alleged human trafficking and sexual harassment in the Senate.
“The investigation is carried out on the basis of information provided by the former congressman recently in an interview in a mass media and through his social networks. The Prosecutor’s Office will summon the next friday january 13 to Mr. Gustavo Bolívar”, reads the statement published by the investigative body.
Bolívar told journalist Vicky Dávila that four women came to his office in the Senate and told him that they were being forced to have sexual relations with those who hired them in Congress and that to maintain the pressure, they gave them short-term contracts.
“In order to enslave them sexually, they made them contracts for two or three months. It is easier for them to be with them once more than if the contracts are made for one year. They keep them that way, with small contracts. That was the complaint they made me,” said the former senator.
After his statements were on the lips of public opinion in the country, Bolívar expanded his complaint on his Twitter account, where he assured that he had his secretary as a witness to the complaints and that in addition knew the names of the perpetrators. Likewise, he reiterated that the complainants do not dare to speak publicly to protect their careers and their family and personal relationships.
After his statements, Bolívar has received multiple criticisms for not having filed a complaint with the competent authorities as soon as he heard the testimonies of the victims. Even the lawyer Daniel Briceno He announced that he would criminally denounce the former congressman for the crime of “abuse of authority due to omission of complaint.”
“Article 417 of the Penal Code establishes that if a public servant is aware of a crime that must be investigated ex officio and does not report it to the authorities, they will incur a fine and loss of public office”, Briceño explained on his Twitter account.
