A robust 83-page file that includes 66 documentary evidence, 36 testimonials and 25 statements, adding the key testimony of Daysuris Vásquez, They make up the indictment with which the Prosecutor’s Office will seek a conviction against Nicolás Petro, son of President Gustavo Petro, for alleged acts of illicit enrichment and money laundering, as revealed by Noticias RCN.
“There are $1,053,911,056 million that are not the product of his work as a deputy, and since he has not reported, nor found, another legal and regular economic activity that generates income, nor financial leveragethese are refuted as an unjustified increase in assets,” quotes part of the Prosecutor’s Office document.
Part of that money would have been used to buy a lot in race 8 No. 3-24 of the SZIGE project in Villas de Palmarito, Tubará, Atlántico, valued at $334,938,000, paid in cash, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The document that has already been filed before a judge in Barranquilla, warns that the then deputy Nicolás Petro would have had income clandestinely from May 2021 until the end of 2022.
“He knew and understood that he was acquiring, investing, hiding, and concealing assets that had their mediate or immediate origin (…) in the crime of illicit enrichment, giving not only the assets but also the activities an appearance of legality.” , quotes the indictment.
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The former deputy, Nicolás Petro, is expected to appear on November 20 in Barranquilla before the office of prosecutor Mario Burgos for the start of his trial for this process.
2023-09-28 15:15:14
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