Due to the fight between Petro and Barbosa, Nicolás Petro requested a change of prosecutor to assume the investigations against him

2023-05-08 23:07:37

As if it were a war announced, Nicolás Petro, the son of President Gustavo PetroHe decided challenge Attorney General Francisco Barbosa and asked that the other prosecutors who are conducting his investigation for money laundering stay away from the case.

And it is that, in a 28-page document, signed by the lawyers David Teleki and Juan Trujilloit is read that “’the war’ that Prosecutor Barbosa has declared against President Petro, has already reached the character of grave enmitywhich includes the family nucleus of both senior State officials, because, on the one hand, it involves the security of the Barbosa family and on the other hand, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the president’s son, that is, Nicolás Petro ”.

Thus, after the fight that broke out between the two powers that carries with it signs on both sides, the president’s son and his lawyers decided to step aside and remove prosecutor Luis Fernando Merchán and prosecutor Mario Burgos from the investigation; instead, they requested that they be nName an ad hoc prosecutor appointed by the Supreme Court of Justice.

The main reason they allege in the letter has to do with the fact that said fight between Barbosa and Petro could hinder the investigationand for this reason, they also requested that suspend the proceedings while it is resolved in the background the request issued this Monday.

“The enmity and animosity against President Petroaffects the trial, impartiality and objectivity of Prosecutor Barbosa and his thin prosecutors, against Nicolás Petro, since in addition to having brought the confrontation to the family level (removing the Barbosa family from the country for fear of being assassinated by President Petro); The Prosecutor has repeatedly referred to the case of Nicolás Petro, hinting at his enormous power to submit him to a partial and biased trial, ”says the document.

Therefore, for the defense lawyers of Nicolás Petro, both the General Prosecutor and the prosecutors in charge of the case, have impediments to continue with the investigation given the evident enmity with the father of their defendant. Besides, point out that there is a personal and political bias.

“The current political climate, where in a decontextualized way the Prosecutor in various press conferences has brought up the matter that he has in his Prosecutor’s institution (Nicolas Petro case), They legitimize us to demand that an ad hoc prosecutor be appointed to handle these investigations, which in the end”, conclude the lawyers.

The case involving the president’s son has to do with the recent statements by his ex-wife Days Vásquez in which he denounced that Nicolás had received irregular money in the middle of the electoral campaign by ex-narcos and questioned businessmen. For now, the facts are a matter of investigation.