After the interview with the former advisor Eva Ferrer to the magazine Weekin which he assured that the former first lady had committed illegal acts, Verónica Alcocer filed a petition with the Prosecutor’s Office to find out the details of the case.
The document is addressed to the Attorney General of the Nation, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, and Gilberto Javier Guerrero Díaz, Deputy Attorney General of the Nation, with the subject: “Request for information about research.”
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Verónica Alcocer’s right to petition
Verónica Alcocer and Eva Ferrer. Photo:Social networks.
The former first lady wrote: “In light of the information recently disclosed, I have gone again to the Attorney General’s Office to reiterate my willingness to collaborate with justice and request details on publicly announced actions.”
The former first lady added the text that she filed with the Prosecutor’s Office, in which she assured that, after from Eva Ferrer’s interview on October 9, decided to send that right of request to receive information about the case.
According to Alcocer, the former advisor’s statements “intend to relate her name to events that supposedly occurred in Venezuela, supported, according to their own statements”, in information received from third parties and not “in their direct knowledge“.
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According to her, another aspect that would have motivated her to file the right to petition would be the “information disclosed about an informal investigation that would have been ordered by the office of the Deputy Attorney General of the Nation.”
In the document, it was stated that this is not the first time that Alcocer has gone to the Prosecutor’s Office due to accusations by Eva Ferrer, since last August, “on the occasion of some audios that, according to herself, were obtained and disclosed without their consent, I sent a communication to the Attorney General expressing my willingness to collaborate with justice.”
Later, Ricardo Gaviria Ramírez, the former first lady’s lawyer, would have consulted the Prosecutor’s Office about the existence of criminal investigations, “in which it was reported that there were no records of investigations against me,” he clarified.
Alcocer assured that, a month later, The Prosecutor’s Office informed them that there was an investigation by the Specialized Directorate against Corruption, which is still ongoing.
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“Since then, we have maintained our willingness to respond to any request from the authorities. We understand that said action is different from what is now publicly announced,” wrote.
“I have the greatest interest in having it clarified with absolute rigor”: Verónica Alcocer spoke out in response to the recent accusations against her about an alleged drug and weapons trafficking network from Venezuela and announced that she went again to the Attorney General’s Office. In this statement, he expressed his willingness to collaborate with justice and requested details about the actions that, as he indicated, have been publicly announced.
— EL TIEMPO (@ELTIEMPO) October 14, 2026
Alcocer emphasized that it is willing to have the information investigated and that he is very interested in the truth being known.
Verónica Alcocer and visits to Venezuela
Eva Ferrer and the first lady, Verónica Alcocer. Photo:Presidency of the Republic
Regarding the protocol actions she developed as first lady, confirmed that he traveled to Venezuela on two occasions, which he assured were official visits.
The first, on January 31, 2023, and the second, on November 18, 2023, the latter in the company of the President of the Republic.
“I did not make any other trip to that country, not even in a personal capacity. Both visits have institutional records, official agendas and publicly accessible audiovisual material, released in both Colombia and Venezuela. that allow us to verify the activities carried out and the people who participated in them,” he assured.
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In addition, she said she feels reassured by the evidence that will allow, according to her, “to distort the statements disclosed and demonstrate that I never participated in the behaviors that have been attempted to be attributed to me“.
Likewise, he reported that he has a legal team that has been compiling and analyzing, with the support of forensic investigators, the information expressed, to make the results available to the authorities.
The former first lady clarified that she does not want the complaint to be discarded without any investigation; On the contrary, he wants the truth to be established.
“Accordingly, respectfully I request that you inform me if the opening of a new criminal investigation or investigation related to the statements made on October 9 andIf so, what is its filing number and the tax office to which it was assigned, or if such facts will be incorporated into a previously existing action,” he said in the document.
Their demands respond to power “timely constitute my trusted defender, guarantee the exercise of my rights and attend to any requirement.”
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The Attorney General’s Office will now have to respond to him to Verónica Alcocer in the next 10 business days by the same means.
Raúl Andrés García Suárez
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