Gustavo Petro Plata: Architect Simon Velez says he has not lent money to Petro | Judicial

Senator Gustavo Petro badured the plenary Senate that the money he received and included in a video was provided by architect Simón Vélez as a contribution to his campaign in 2006.

This Thursday, an article was published in Gatopardo magazine in which Simón Vélez, at least known as the Guadua architect, talks about the political world and its backers. And although, in one of the paragraphs of the aforementioned article, it is written that "he had obtained contributions to the campaigns of antagonistic personages such as the former mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, former guerrilla to whom he has lent his country house to Girardot … German Vargas Lleras, right and current Vice-President of the Republic ", in a communication presented today by Vélez denies it.

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I, Simon Velez, architect by profession, identified as it appears at the bottom of my signature and following the statement made on social networks, I explained to the public that I had not lent to anyone much less to Mr. Gustavo Petro.

Simon Velez
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Manizales

November 29, 2018
Bogota

The Office of the Prosecutor received a complaint from Senator Paloma Valencia, opened an investigation in which it is necessary to hear the architect in a statement and to whom he handed the money to Gustavo Petro, Mr. Juan Carlos Montes.

Petro asks Simón Vélez to clarify whether the money he gave him was a contribution or a loan

Also confirm that Juan Carlos Montes, an entrepreneur during his town hall, appears in the video.

In response to the brief statement of the architect Simón Vélez, Petro states that the one who appears in the video is Juan Carlos Montes, who hands over the money on behalf of his business leader, who would be Mr. Vélez.