Petro video that revealed Paloma Valencia

The discussion on the video that Paloma Valencia presented in Tuesday's plenary session, where Senator Gustavo Petro receives a number of sums of money, continued to spark controversy and has now been brought before the House's first commission. representatives.

Where the vote reform vote was to begin on Wednesday, the controversial video was relayed and warmed.

It's Gabriel Santos, a representative at the Democratic Center House, who introduced him asking him not to know "what Dr. Petro is complaining about when he had such benefactors," he said. He could do is to put this money in the accounts of the state and pay his millionaires "debts".

Even claimed that Petro should specify the country that has received it, because according to him, while the senator says that it is Simón Vélez, who is paisa, in the video, you will hear a man from the coast. "It is a serious complaint, even if it 's about an old video, it' s about a person who wants to govern the country."

Santos, son of Colombia's ambbadador to the United States, Francisco Santos, also stressed that this would be the ideal opportunity for proponents of anti-corruption consultation to show that they did not want vote.

"They were $ 20 million," says Petro

In turn, Senator Gustavo Petro said that the video clearly answers all the questions that are asked about the origin, the amount and the place where he received the money.

"The video is presented without the clarity of the audio, the full audio, they can review it, it establishes the source of resources, what it serves, where and on what date" , did he declare.

Then he said, "I give myself the date in the video because I get a call and I make an appointment at home, I give the exact address of this video, which is 14 years old. "

Colombian Senator Humana says the money is provided by the architect Simón Vélez, "who wanted to lend me the resources, and why it was in cash, because he l? uses, he does not make financial transactions, the video says it too, they were 20 million weights ".

Petro also contested the fact that Senator Paloma Valencia, at the time of the presentation of the video in plenary, left open the interpretation that consisted of Odebrecht money or alleged favors to the mayor of Bogota and even that they were resources of Venezuela.

For his part, his lawyer, Julio César Ortiz, said that "it is a video taken illegally by a former partner of Senator Petro, more than 14 years ago, in the framework of an internal activity of collecting resources for the maintenance and support of the movement. "

"This does not correspond to an act of corruption or money perceived by subcontractors or businessmen.It is a perverse and malicious intent to use a registration. clandestine and illegal of an ex-partner of an absolutely legal activity, "said the lawyer.

Ortiz added: "We are aware of what they are going to do, but it is a long time ago and we investigated that there was no breach of the law. or the election regulations, or Senator Gustavo Petro or the movement. " that he was heading at that time. "

Senator Petro is expected to speak on Tuesday in the Senate plenary.

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