In the recent statements that Angie Rodríguez has given, Once the right-hand man of President Gustavo Petro, there is an issue that he even says set off alarm bells for the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI).
“The president’s phone number, when I realize it, is in the name of a person close to Laura (Sarabia). It caused me an immediate alert. He informed the president that his cell phone was not in his name, but in that of Jaime Ramírez Cobo. Everything pointed to Mrs. Laura Sarabia”Rodríguez said.
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René Guarín’s chat
René Guarín, the last head of the DNI in Petro’s time. Photo:THE TIME
He even revealed a chat he exchanged about the matter with René Guarín, then head of the DNI.
“Not the previous Gmail ones, because those are known to the original owner of the poisoned cell phone that was given to the president. That’s why it’s time to buy a new SIM card and start from scratch and give his number to the people he wants. To the ministers, to the ambassadors, to the secretary, to you and so on. Little by little, it is the most radical solution and the one that frees you from continuing to be tied to that poisoned cell phone that you let yourself get into.“, reads Guarín’s message about the case.
The chat with René Guarín. Photo:EL TIEMPO / Private archive
The matter becomes relevant because Ramírez Cobo, a friend of Laura Sarabia, is part of those investigated for the looting of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) and, In addition, he was close to the fugitive Carlos Ramón González, Petro’s file who jumped from Dapre to the DNI.
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‘The President knew’
Former president Gustavo Petro and the then Dapre advisor, Jaime Ramírez Cobo. Photo:Private file
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO He contacted Mario Iguarán, Ramírez Cobo’s attorney, and began by pointing out that, according to his client, President Petro knew that his cell phone was in the name of the young presidential advisor.
“As Jaime Ramírez Cobo’s lawyer, I clarify that he only lent his name to register the line for reasons of time and as a favor strictly to Petro, who, According to Ramírez, he knew from the beginning that the line was registered in his name, and he was the only person who used it and managed it directly for his personal communications,” Iguarán said..
And he added: “In that order, on the one hand, it must be specified that Jaime Ramírez never had the line in his possession or used it. And on the other hand, it must be highlighted that this favor does not constitute any legal irregularity.”
The former president He has not referred to the issue, but denied that Laura Sarabia was extorting or blackmailing him with information to which she had access.
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