Three contributions totaling 365,000 pesos have the former presidential candidate in trouble Gustavo Petro, to whom the National Electoral Council (CNE) opened an investigation for alleged irregularities in the financing of his campaign, in 2018.
The amounts were known this Friday, when the CNE magistrate who handles the case, Renato Contreras, revealed them in the middle of a radio interview.
“One person from Cartagena gave 95,000 pesos and the other two gave, one 120,000 pesos and the other 150,000 pesos,” Contreras said on Blu Radio.
These contributions, made by three people who were public servants at the time of the donation, are prohibited by law and That is what the National Electoral Council is investigating.
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From the moment the investigation became known, Petro himself admitted that those donations they had existed and said that this process was “because a teacher donated 95,000 pesos to the campaign.”
My record in the face of the political persecution of Mr. Renato Contreras, representative of the Democratic Center in the @CNE_COLOMBIA , against Human Colombia and against me, because three teachers contributed 365,000 pesos in total to my campaign. pic.twitter.com/3qantORYEJ
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) July 24, 2020
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In a session of the First Committee of the Senate, Petro said this Thursday that the process in the CNE against him it was a “persecution” of Contreras, who was nominated for office by the Democratic Center, According to himself he admitted it.
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Senator Gustavo Bolívar, a petrist, also came out in defense of the former presidential candidate: “They denounce Petro for receiving money from Vzla. And since the CNE does not find that donation, because it does not exist, it opens an investigation for $ 450,000 that Berta Isabel Bravo, teacher of Cartagena donated to their campaign. The CD receives $ 300,000 and they don’t touch it, “he wrote on Twitter.
#UnDescaroEs that of CNE magistrate Renato Contreras of the CD. When not finding such a contribution from Vzla, he opens processes in the Prosecutor’s Office and Court for 3 donations from some teachers who do not add $ 400 thousand, money reported by the Petro campaign and is silent in front of ÑeñePolítica and US300 thousand of Cisneros pic.twitter.com/bSRsQJ6qkv
– Gustavo Bolívar (@GustavoBolivar) July 24, 2020
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Although the sanction to which he would be exposed Petro’s campaign in the National Electoral Council would be economical —According to the same CNE it would be 134 million pesos, maximum—, the congressman would have to face a process in the Supreme Court of Justice for this alleged violation of the law.
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