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By Jennyfer Solano B.
Three new auditions of January 23 this year revealed the Attorney General of the Nation yesterday during the debate on the Congress of Odebrecht in Congress, during which the former controller of the concession Ruta del Sol II, Jorge Pizano, made a statement the Court of Arbitration of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, in which is written: "I did not know that a crime had been committed as we know it later".
According to the prosecutor, the dates of the published recordings did not reveal whether Odebrecht paid bribes in the countries where he operated. "So, Mr. Pizano was not aware of the crimes and the messenger was aware," he refuted, adding that in 2015, he was not a prosecutor but a citizen who is now required "as if he were a civil servant at the time and had special tasks of denunciation and investigation", this when he defends himself against the accusations against him for failing to report crimes that he allegedly had known since 2015 as Grupo Aval's attorney.
In his speech, which lasted more than an hour, Néstor Humberto Martínez directly accused the former director of the ANI, Luis Fernando Andrade, sued for the scandal of Odebrecht, D & # 39; 39; be the brain of a conspiracy against him, from which he would also have separated the wife of Andrade. The prosecutor warned that Senator Gustavo Petro would meet Andrade to "conspire" against him. And he pointed out that IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno, cousin of Andrade, had taken his defense and recommended to make some noise in the media.
Similarly, Martinez badured that he was joined by Jorge Pizano, a friendship of several years, and that, pitifully, "they poisoned him, but out of hatred against the prosecutor". He added that the debate and all the charges against him constituted the payment of his work before the Attorney General's Office, with which he sued 2,505 people for bribery in two years, with bribes and bribes. money "linked to the money of Colombians and the Nation for 4,400 billion pesos".
"I did not think it would provoke hatred against the prosecutor's figure (…) I pay the fees to fight to defend the money and the Colombian patrimony," the prosecutor said.
Martinez criticized the leaders of the debate: Jorge Robledo, Gustavo Petro and Angélica Lozano, especially against the senator of the Democratic pole, which, according to him, "serves as an inquisitor and removes the morale of any official". King of sophistry and lies ".
Robledo, Lozano and Petro Reviews
The debate on the Odebrecht affair began with the intervention of the senator of the Democratic pole, Jorge Robledo, who demanded the definitive departure of Néstor Humberto Martínez at the head of the Office of the Prosecutor. The reasons given by the senator are: concealing the bribes paid by the Brazilian multinational company in the Ruta del Sol II contract, "having lied to the country several times during this process" and having also badured Martínez, as a prosecutor, supposedly favored the executives of the Aval group.
In addition, Robledo demanded that the lawyer Fernando Carrillo be separated from the case because he is bound after having been legal counsel at the time of Grupo Aval.
The senator of the Green Alliance, Angélica Lozano, for her part proposed the creation of an international commission of experts collaborating with Colombian governmental entities. According to the senator, the appointment of an ad hoc prosecutor is not enough, she also calls for the resignation of Martinez.
"Duque (the president) must ask the UN for an international commission and must make it a short list," the petition launched and continued to stress the need not to continue to "demoralize citizens".
For his part, Petro said that there was still much to investigate in this case, such as payments for the Ruta del Sol and Consol, or the officials who had managed the other for the Ocaña-Gamarra section.
At the same time, he denounced the purchase of a video of one of his friends, lending money to "obscure" his debate on Odebrecht, video that was later disclosed by the senator of the Paloma Valencia Democratic Center.
"I will not let myself be forced"
After three hours of debate, the Attorney General arrived at the congress venue around 8 pm to give his explanations. He concluded by stating that he could cope with the whole country, that he had bent to the law and not He "missed the homeland".
"I inform you that I will not let myself be coerced, that no corrupt party will fund programs that discredit the justice system in Colombia, and I will not let myself be compelled to cover corrupt behavior," concluded his energetic intervention. Congress declaring, "I will not compete with a group that acts as a pyromaniac in the rule of law.Today, you know all the history and not the manipulated version of the conspirators."
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