The high-end cell phone Deicy Alejandra Jiménez Ramírez is going to become in the coming days one of the evidence that the young woman says she has against former president Gustavo Petro for the payment of sexual favors with contracts in public entities during the previous four-year period.
In the procedure that Jiménez, 27 years old, had last Thursday with the Investigative Chamber of the Supreme Court, repeated that she met Petro through an adult page, when she was about 18 years old and the left-wing politician occupied a seat in the Senate and had already aspired to the presidency of the Republic.
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Houses and contracts
Deicy Jiménez and lawyer Felipe Caballero. Photo:Courtesy.
Although the former president has come out to categorically deny this accusation and has attributed it (among other factors) to an attempt by political parties to invade his intimate life, “with money involved”, the fact that public resources are involved in the version given by the young high school graduate, born in Seville (Valle), led to the justice being asked to investigate this information.
Added to this was the narrative that had been circulating for months, under the label of ‘the yellow butterflies’; young women who, according to Angie Rodríguez – former head of Dapre and once Petro’s trusted asset – entered the Government through the same route that Deyci Jiménez is now indicating. Rodríguez had even already denounced him before the Impeachment Commission of the House of Representatives, the natural judge of presidents.
Former president Gustavo Petro Urrego. Photo:Social networks
In addition to the testimony of Deyci Jiménez, there is another trail that is being asked to follow to establish whether these types of links with former President Petro went beyond personal territory and involved the irregular use of public money. the opaque management of payrolls in notaries, ministries and other State entities, and even the delivery of roles to people who did not have the required expertise.
In addition to the 48 cases with similarities to Jiménez’s that the new head of Dapre, Carlos Ríos, claims to have documented, EL TIEMPO’s Investigative Unit obtained testimonies from former officials of the Petro government and the National Police who claim that there were hidden houses used for private meetings attended by young people and even female officials.
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‘National security issue’
Jorge Lemus. Photo:Private file
Jorge Lemus, the Petro member who lasted the longest as head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), admitted to EL TIEMPO that some houses were enabled with façade functions and supported with reserved expenses that were put at the disposal of the then president for meetings that they did not want to be recorded in Casa de Nariño, for example, with opponents.
“They are safe houses that the President never went to and about which I cannot provide information because it is a matter of national security. What I can tell you is that DNI offices operated there and that they were not used for what they are saying.”Lemus said.
However, two members of the former DNI leadership assured EL TIEMPO that there was a security report due to the use, by the president and his scheme, of a house located in the south of Bogotá and two more, one of these, located a couple of blocks from Corferias.
The alert, the former officials say, came weeks before the so-called COP 16 was held, in Cali (Valle), between October and November 2024. “We went to verify if it was true that President Petro spent the night in a couple of private homes for two or even three days. And it was suggested that their security be reinforced because a local gang operated in the area of one of the houses. In addition, it was requested that a nearby ambulance be available for any emergency regarding the health and safety of the president,” one of the former DNI officials told the Investigative Unit of this newspaper.
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The DNI alert
Gustavo Petro and María José Pizarro. Photo:Presidency of the Republic
And he provided another relevant detail. He assured that the issue of alerts and displacements was in charge of the counterintelligence area of that entity.
This newspaper had already revealed last July that Liliana Olaya, mother of Gabriela Muñoz, the controversial young Aerocivil contractor, worked in that DNI department. One of the houses to which the former officials refer is in the Quinta Paredes neighborhood, near Corferias.
“Many people passed through there and another house, including a police director, a high court official and even a senior executive of the Ecopetrol group. They were used alternately as offices to discuss state decisions, and then for private meetings for those who wanted to stay.”One of the people who was in that place as part of one of the security schemes told EL TIEMPO.
Although intelligence sources assured that it is common for leaders to use these alternate offices to deal with State issues, what is asked to be investigated is whether they had other types of uses and with what money their income and support were covered.
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Notary and businessman
Angie Rodríguez, former director of Dapre, filing her complaint against Petro. Photo:MAURICIO MORENO
In addition to security cameras, where the arrival of the visitors’ escort caravans was supposedly recorded, Exact addresses will be provided so that the issue can be investigated with the people who rented or lent the homes. What witnesses point out is that a couple of businessmen and a lawyer – who worked at Dapre and who later joined a notary office – were aware of the movements in a couple of these houses.
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO contacted one of the businessmen mentioned, but he denied any connection with the management of the houses, even though he admitted that he made contacts with the Government to bring in foreign investment: “I live more abroad than here.”
The notary was also called, whom two sources mentioned, and after asking about the subject of the meetings, she responded: “I do not give personal information about myself or anyone else.”
For now, it will be requested that Jesusita Quirós be called to testify, Gustavo Petro’s trusted secretary in Congress, who was supposedly mentioned in a chat contributed by Deicy Jiménez, published by Semana magazine.
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The chat
One of Deyci Jiménez’s contracts. Photo:EL TIEMPO/ Private Archive
“Jesusita told me that you had not called the person with whom you always leave the documents and that they are waiting for you,” reads a chat from September 2, 2022, sent from one of the 4 profiles that Petro used.
EL TIEMPO called the former advisor, but at the time of going to press she had not answered the calls.
Already last July, the name of Jiménez and the contract she obtained at the Ministry of the Interior had been revealed in a publication on
Andrés Caballero, Deyci Jiménez’s attorney, has come out to assure that his client is a victim and that the responsibility of collecting the material elements of evidence that a sector of Petrism is demanding does not fall on her: “You cannot require a woman, when there is conduct behind closed doors, to have additional proof to her testimony. That, in itself, is already proof, as indicated by the law.”
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‘Neither drugs nor women’
Alejandro Carranza, lawyer of the former president. Photo:Supplied to EL TIEMPO
And in addition to announcing the delivery of the cell phone with chats, videos and photos, he confirmed Jiménez’s 5 contracts, which the EL TIEMPO Investigative Unit revealed. One, in the first vice presidency of the Senate, when María José Pizarro was at the head; another, in the Interior portfolio, during the time of Armando Benedetti; and in the Surveillance Superintendence. And one more appeared, in process, in Dapre, 13 days before the Petro government expired, which Jiménez assured that he was unaware of. And although they reject the allegations, neither the former president nor Senator Pizarro have come out to deny the personal and contractual link (respectively) with the young woman.
EL TIEMPO contacted the lawyer Alejandro Carranza, representative of former President Petro, who – after consulting the former president – admitted that there were meetings in private homes.
But he assured that it is false that there were women, drugs or drinks: “Only national security issues were discussed.”
And he added that officials who remained in the new government have been pressured to declare what type of relationship they had with Petro.in what he described as job persecution and abuse that he will report. In addition, he reiterated the legal actions against Angie Rodríguez.
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