Enchanted Petro's mess and the video in which he appears receiving money – Investigación – Justicia

The 14-minute video in which Gustavo Petro seems to receive a large sum of money, revealed in the same debate against the prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez at this week's Congress, contains explanations from Colombia's head, Humana.

The Supreme Court and the prosecutor's office opened investigations. So far, there is nothing to indicate that it is illegal money, although Petro gave contradictory explanations about the origin of the money and the meeting that would have taken place in 2005, which would have been done surreptitiously.

This is what you need to know to understand the new mess of the former mayor of Bogotá.

1. Is the video in itself the proof of a crime?

It's a meeting at which Petro interacts with his case, Juan Carlos Montes, who gives him several stacks of bills that the politician ends up collecting in a plastic bag. Petro badures that it is a personal loan that the architect Simón Vélez made him go through Montes. The problem is that Vélez denies it.

Today, to date, the court has no indication that it is illegal money. Even though it was unclaimed money for a political campaign – about which, once again, there is no concrete evidence – an investigation would have a hard time to flourish because, for the time being, 14 years ago – the violation of the electoral boundaries was not a crime in itself. Colombia. And the possible criminal behavior badociated with masking election expenses – for example lies in public and private documents – would have already prescribed.

2. So, why is Petro getting into trouble with the video?

Until now, the implications of registration are more political than judicial. This is because one of the flags with which the former mayor of Bogota built his successful political movement is the fight against corruption. In fact, his alliance with other parties for Congress called "Decent."

The image of Petro receiving money, the clandestine registration and the patination of the explanation of the origin of the money affect the most voted candidate of left in the history of the country because they put it as the protagonist of a video he describes as "very ugly", they spent a high recovery account against Colombians.

The contradictions in his explanations do not help the senator. First, before the same Senate, he spoke about a loan from Simón Vélez. Then, he extracted from his personal account a short video of one of his lawyers in which he claimed that the images corresponded to a fundraiser for his political campaign, a version that collides with personal loan .

And in addition, there is the energetic affirmation of Vélez, who stated on this subject: "I, Simón Vélez, architect by profession, I have identified as it appears at the bottom of my signature and following the statement made in social networks, I clarify to the public that I have not lent to anyone, let alone to Mr. Gustavo Petro. "

Petro asked the architect to clarify if the money corresponds to a loan or a campaign contribution.

3. Who is the man who appears with Petro in the video?

This is Juan Carlos Montes, a former M-19 activist who was later a senior official in Gustavo Petro's mayor's office. In fact, he was interviewed because, as deputy technical director of the road maintenance unit, he interfered in the controversial recruitment of the "Tapahuecos Machine", which cost the city nearly of 12 billion pesos and was interviewed because of the Petro administration. The call for bids for the law was ignored using the hiring figure in the Science and Technology category. Montes, already called to testify by the Office of the Prosecutor, has many pieces of this political and legal jigsaw.

4. Where does the silver version of the capo Daniel el el Loco video come from? Barrera?

This was the result of a complaint filed by the lawyer Abelardo de La Espriella, but until now, there was no evidence to allow such an badociation. In fact, the & # 39; Loco & # 39; Barrera has been mentioned in other versions of alleged contributions to political campaigns that have never been proven in court. De la Espriella will have to support his badertions. The prosecution has already filed a complaint with the Supreme Court, the body competent to investigate the status of senator of the Republic of Petro.

At the time of the events -2005-, the "Loco Barrera" was not known. According to the intelligence services, it was a second-level file of the paramilitaries of the Eastern Llanos. After being one of the men who unveiled paramilitary power and his infiltration into national politics, it is unlikely that Gustavo Petro could count on the support of a drug dealer who got his power , precisely, anchored in the "paras".

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