Mixed between Senator Roy Barreras, local advisers, and even candidate Gustavo Petro and his wife Verónica Alcocer, Three strangers appear to be interacting in the so-called ‘Petrovideos’ leaked last week.
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Uruguayan Daniel Eskibel, Catalan Xavier Vendrell and Ecuadorian Vinicio Alvarado Espinel.
The latter, now residing in Venezuela, is the same adviser to Rafael Correa, the then president of Ecuador. They also attribute the sticky ‘Let’s change’ slogan from the Argentinean Cristina Kirchner’s campaign to her.
But also behavior that amounts to conviction in Ecuador, Preventing it from leaving Caracas in 2020 and initiating warnings at international airports.
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It is a prison sentence, which Alvarado describes as mounting for participating in a corporate bribery network. to finance Rafael Correa’s political movement in exchange for contracts.
Despite the proximity with Alvarado over the Correa-Kirchner axis, members of the campaign candidate Gustavo Petro is closer to the Catalan Xavier Vendrell.
In 2017, while Petro was mayor of Bogota, he posted a photo of Vendrell on his networks, describing him as a member of Bogotá Humana’s support networks:And now he is fighting for the independence of his homeland”.
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And then, he lamented his capture in 2020: “Xavier Vendrell is imprisoned in Spain, a businessman whose crime is to help the independence of Catalonia. We are experiencing moments of maximum tension in the democratic struggles of the peoples. My solidarity with his family, who gave us so much solidarity.”.
Vendrell was a Member of Parliament and a member of the Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia between 1999 and 2010. The Terra Lliure terrorist group, an independence organization that disbanded in 1991.
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According to the Spanish justice system, his arrest took place in the framework of the so-called Voloh case. So-called influence trading and diversion of funds in the process of domination of Catalonia.
Before his capture and after his release, Vendrell made several entries to Colombia. Introduces himself as CEO on networks Barcelona Export Group is “a consultancy dedicated to the internationalization of European companies, with a particular focus on Latin America, but also developing projects in China, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf”.
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The El Expediente portal, Vendrell itself has a headquarters in Bogota, five subsidiaries in Colombia and another three in the constitutional process. Indeed, as he said, the most advanced project is called Torre Barcelona, another one in Tunja and another one in Santa Marta.
EL TIEMPO investigated and identified Spanish national Joan Vila Planas (who appears as the company’s director) in 2015. The firm in Barcelona established the company Barcelona Export Group Colombia SAS with a capital of 50 million pesos in Bogota (in 2018).
And in 2019 it expanded its range of actions to the collection, cleaning and management of municipal solid waste, and civil and hydraulic engineering projects, among other fields.
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In addition to auditing businesses, this newspaper also revealed that: He may need to return to the country to clarify what Vendrell said in the videos he provided to the prosecutor’s office.
It pops up next to Barreras when they talk about implementing a strategy to attack politically. Sergio Fajardo, Fico Gutierrez and Alejandro Gaviria.
But also when it comes to a campaign contribution that is allegedly unregistered.
“It was supposed to be a man named Daes who pays for communications equipment. So, if it’s a María Antonia team and she’s paying the rest, that’s what I’ve figured out so far. Daes needs to do this with another person and another team.“, Says.
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Businessman Christian Daes reject the contribution. VE EL TIEMPO tried to locate Vendrell, but the campaign said on Wednesday – when the scandal broke – he had left the country.
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