This Monday, June 1, the hearing against Nicolas Petro for alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of having committed a crime during his father’s campaign, the President Gustavo Petroin the year 2022. In the diligence, the judge Hugo Carbonó He opposed a key request from the prosecution.
The prosecutor Lucy Labordein charge of the file, has insisted that he wants to take the statements he gave to the oral trial Nicolas Petro during the negotiations that he managed to maintain to obtain a judicial benefit. Nevertheless, the agreement did not reach good terms and that is why the process has continued to take its course in the Specialized Court 2 of Barranquilla, led by Hugo Carbonó.
At first, this judge opposed Laborde’s request to include those statements by former deputy Nicolás Petro, concluding that They were part of approaches that did not come to a good endand that the law prohibits the content of what he said there from being taken into account in the oral trial.
New accusation hearing against Nicolás Petro. Photo:Private file
Laborde filed a motion for reconsideration alleging that he did not agree with the exclusion of this evidence. However, Carbonó maintained that statements that are given within the framework of a principle of opportunity They cannot be endorsed.
Nicolás Petro is accused because he illegally enriched himself with 1,053 million pesos, which he allegedly received from businessmen on the Caribbean coast such as Gabriel Hilsaca and Samuel Santander Lopesierraand that were aimed at the Petro Presidente 2022 campaign.
Lucy Laborde, prosecutor of the Petro case Photo:Video shot
The former deputy would have kept that money to spend on personal issues with his then partner. Day Vasquez. She did get a beginning of opportunity that saved her from going to jail, and that now has her as the main witness against Nicolás Petro.
Of all these accusations, the former deputy has declared himself innocent, and through his lawyer Alejandro Carranza has denounced alleged argumentative shortcomings of prosecutor Laborde.
Carlos López – @CarlosL49 – carben@eltiempo.com
