“I’m not going to talk about my private life or anyone’s.”
With those 13 words, the 44th notary of the Bogotá Circle, Diana Torres Sánchez, told the EL TIEMPO Investigative Unit eight days ago that she was not going to respond none of the questions about the meetings that took place in three apartments that she has occupied in the Quinta Paredes-Corferias sector, where the then president Petro arrived.
However, his name has continued to appear repeatedly in testimonies obtained by this newspaper in which businessmen from the hydrocarbon sector and even officials from the Petro government assure that Torres Sánchez She was the one who coordinated meetings with the president outside Casa de Nariño, which sometimes ended in private parties attended by young women.
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Mirror copy and video
Deicy Jiménez and Angie Rodríguez. Photo:Courtesy
Deicy Jiménez, the young woman who is accusing the former president of exchanging sexual favors for contracts in state entities, even since he was a senator, told EL TIEMPO that she did not remember Torres Sánchez, because they had mentioned many women within the alleged network that operated in the Petro government with that same pattern of behavior. However, in the middle of the week, the scandal affecting the head of the left-wing opposition escalated due to two almost simultaneous events that triggered, In addition, strong reactions from various sides are now even asking that he be subjected to a political trial for indignity.
Indeed, after the Prosecutor’s Office spent more than 15 hours making a mirror copy of Deicy Jiménez’s iPhone – where there are chats, photos and videos with which it seeks to prove its accusations against Petro -, The young woman leaked one of the intimate images to, according to her, prove to the country that she is telling the truth.
And then a chat that Petro sent to his then director of Dapre, Angie Rodríguez, became known. giving him the instruction to maintain Jiménez’s contract at the Ministry of the Interior, whose resume he sent.
EL TIEMPO had already revealed the five contracts that appear to the 27-year-old high school graduate in that portfolio, during the time of Armando Benedetti; in the second vice presidency of the Senate, in the times of María José Pizarro, and in the Superintendency of Surveillance. In addition, two in the making: one in Dapre and another in the San Juan de Dios hospital in Bogotá.
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Double notary
The decree by which Diana Torres was appointed notary. Photo:Private file
Even shortly before photos of Jiménez next to then-Senator Pizarro were revealed, she came out to admit that she knew her as a contractor, but that she has never participated in an act of corruption. And regarding notary 44 —whom they point out as key to clarifying the meetings of then President Petro in private homes—, a ‘pureblood’ Petrista told EL TIEMPO that She is the relative of a former member of the M-19 guerrilla, very close to Gustavo Petro, to whom the former president ended up assigning an office in the Bogotá notarial circle.
“We all knew that Diana was one of the first to leave it secured in a notary office before the government ended and that a relative was given an office in Fusagasugá”explained the former official.
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO investigated and established that, in effect, through Resolution 0069 of January 27, 2026, signed by Petro and his then Minister of Justice in charge, Andrés Idárraga, Diana Torres was appointed on an interim basis as notary 44, a first-class office located two blocks from Corferias and six minutes from the United States embassy in Bogotá.
“And, in December 2023, when Néstor Osuna was Minister of Justice, they had already appointed Diana’s relative in a notary office in Fusagasugá and then in a notary office in Medellín. What is said and what has already been asked to investigate is that other women were located in those notary offices and some key businesses were sealed.”the same source told EL TIEMPO, and this newspaper found the respective resolutions.
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Tavern and noise
The notary Diana Torres and the former president Gustavo Petro. Photo:Private file
Furthermore, it was established that when Petro was mayor of Bogotá, Today’s notary had a tavern-bar in the Chapinero area: Diaka Restaurante Café.
Years later he began renting apartments in the Quinta Paredes neighborhood, where contractors and officials (including two ministers) arrived. and people around the then president and today head of the Historical Pact.
Paradoxically, a complaint about excessive noise in the tavern, filed with the Environment Secretariat of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, during the time of Mayor Petro, ended providing the address of the notary, which coincides with the testimonies of Petro’s alleged meetings during his four-year term.
In fact, on December 29, 2023, when the designation was being made at the Medellín notary’s office, Diana Torres was notified of the sanction, and in the letter the same addresses of the meeting points of the high government in Quinta Paredes are copied.
A week ago, through Alejandro Carranza, his attorney, former President Petro admitted to EL TIEMPO that they used private houses for meetings, but, according to him, only to discuss matters of national security.
However, in the midst of the investigations that the Supreme Court is already carrying out and According to the Prosecutor’s Office, several photos of the former president appeared in the notary’s addresses celebrating his birthday and at other meetings.
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Hydrocarbons
Alejandro Carranza, lawyer of the former president. Photo:Supplied to EL TIEMPO
A week ago, when criminal lawyer Alejandro Carranza spoke of the connection between the current former president and the notary and stated that he knew her because she was a relative of a former member of the M-19, He was emphatic that the visits to Quinta Paredes were for meetings with a relative named Petro.
However, at least two businessmen in the hydrocarbons sector said they knew the notary today and had been in meetings in their apartments to talk about business in the sector and even appointments at Ecopetrol.
“We know that two ministers also arrived at those meetings, one of them Carina Murcia Yela, head of the ICT portfolio, and they went into one of the rooms with computers in hand. Another arrived in a white Nissan Sentra and in the logs of one of the buildings it must appear that on one occasion they scratched the car of one of the residents and the complaint was lodged.”said one of the businessmen.
And he added that, even when the version arose that money had been lost to a senior government official, days before one of those meetings had been recorded in Quinta Paredeswhere the appointment of a governor was discussed.
EL TIEMPO looked for the notary Torres again to ask her about these statements, but she did not respond. However, after the messages from this newspaper, he issued a statement in which he assured that it is false that Notary Office 44 of Bogotá was given to him as payment for lending his apartment for parties and alleged sexual encounters of the former president: “As a friend, he sometimes came to my apartment to greet me, and my private space and that of the people who visit me do not have to be exposed to the public.”
And after mentioning his professional career, he added: “I had the honor of (Petro) visiting me on my birthday, of which there are photos and witnesses. He stayed for a while, everyone wanted a photo with him, and he left. I attest that he has always been a respectful man.”
The then ICT Minister, Carina Murcia Yela, was also contacted. to ask him if he attended the meetings in Quinta Paredes and although he asked for the questions to be sent to him via chat, he read them and did not respond.
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‘Old friends’
Gustavo Petro in Diana Torres’ apartment. Photo:Private file
The one who did respond was the criminal lawyer Carranza, who, after consulting former President Petro, He added that the former president has a long-standing friendship with the current notary due to the link with the former guerrilla in which he also participated.
“I do not understand the malice if the president went to Dr. Diana Torres’s apartment and if he attended a party, a lunch, there. to a social or political meeting. They have been friends for about 20 or 30 years. What I am sure of is that there were no drugs or anything sexual as they wanted to show.”Carranza told EL TIEMPO.
And he added: “She has accompanied him throughout the political project and was with him since the mayor of Bogotá and campaigning for him. There is nothing strange in that a lawyer who has supported him so much is appointed as a notary, What they have begun to do is stigmatize progressive women, ignoring their professional capabilities.”
When EL TIEMPO asked him about the version of the alleged meetings with two ministers from the last four years, he replied: “They are the ones who should respond. I don’t know if when the president went to that apartment he lay down in bed, on the couch or if he went into the kitchen; Only they know that.”
The lawyer concluded by saying that they will insist that the evidence regarding the 48 women’s contracts mentioned by Dapre be delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office: “To this day we don’t know who they are or what they talk about.”
In any case, the information from Deicy Jiménez’s cell phone is already being analyzed. And it is not ruled out that a request to cross-check the cells of several cell phone lines of Petro government officials to determine if they coincided in Quinta Paredes.
For now, attorney Gregorio Eljach announced that Jiménez was summoned on Monday to testify and on Tuesday he has an appointment at the Prosecutor’s Office.
Powerful bishops of the Petro government will also be asked to testify. for the contracts to Deicy Jiménez.
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