28-page document signed by Rodrigo Alfonso Bustos Brasbi, Special agent for the Attorney General’s Office’s sanctions procedures, which intervened in the Democratic Center’s investigation against then-presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga, reveals that the control unit refused to archive the investigation. against the candidate.
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EL TIEMPO had exclusive access to the concept of the Office of the Attorney General andthe result is devastating. He says there is evidence that $1.6 million was received for the campaign, watered down by the multinational Odebrecht. And so they reported it to Carlos Camargo, the then investigating judge of the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Concept Submitted to CNE on October 18, 2017.
According to the documents mentioned in the concept, the proving judge ordered a Preliminary Investigation to be opened, the request to be approved by the Director of the Democratic Center Political Party, and ordered the application of evidence.
A forensic review of the main dossier by the National Attorney General’s Office of Anti-Corruption was ordered, among others, regarding the submission of income and expense reports on Zuluaga’s candidacy.
It also decided to open an administrative investigation. David Zuluaga Martínez, Director of the Zuluaga Presidente campaign, against Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar; Víctor Manuel Poveda Poveda, internal auditor of the campaign, Norma Maya Hoyos, Treasurer.
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Those who served as committees were also included. Presidential campaign registration according to form E-6, these are Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Fernando Londoño Hoyos and Susana Correa Borrero for allegedly violating the ban of foreign legal entities to participate in election campaigns.
Even so, on October 24, 2017, six after the Attorney General’s concept, the CNE voted in college to open the case.
According to the document, a disciplinary investigation was opened simultaneously against Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar. with the claim of illegality by taking a contribution from a foreign legal entity and partially presenting the campaign income and expense reports.
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With respect to David Zuluaga Martínez, director of the Zuluaga Presidente campaign, the Office of the Attorney General was able to determine in 2014 that he had decision-making capacity and spending management on the Zuluaga Presidente campaign, and appearing as one of those called directly responsible for making decisions regarding the management of resources and for acts investigated under the Law.
Also, action has been taken against Norma Maya Hoyos, Treasurer of the Zuluaga Presidente campaign.”For being the person who has knowledge of the management of resources and appears directly as one of those called upon to respond jointly and individually for the conduct under investigation“.
According to the control body, the statement of the charges against the campaign’s senior staff is based mainly on the legal assessment of the statements given. Recurring by Luiz Antonio Mameri and Eluberto Antonio Martonelli Documents collected in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and documents referring to companies Topsail Holdings Klienfeld Services Ltd, transferred by the Attorney General’s Office to the Attorney General’s Office..
Thanks to these signatures, they would act The $1.6 million that Odebrecht injected into the Óscar Iván Zuluaga campaign in 2014.
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Further, “the investigation relied on media quoted by the lawyer of these former employees of the multinational Odebrecht to whom he was to be accredited.
alleged liability of citizens Óscar Iván Zuluaga David Martínez, Víctor Poveda and Norma Maya Hoyos and registered members of the Important Citizens Group “Democratic Center” In keeping with the role they played in the multifaceted campaign for the Presidency, Ms Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Fernando Londoño and Susana Correa—Hard Hands-Blood—recorded in the document.
The Office of the Attorney General also expressed a clear lack of international cooperation against the National Electoral Council, p.For the purpose of carrying out and transferring several tests ordered and required under the current investigation.
According to the control body, this limited and hindered the investigative activity “when what was expected and desired happened”. Fully coordinated cooperation to clarify all issues investigated by the Colombian authorities“.
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“Evidence of this is the different requirements of the proving judge to different authorities requesting the cooperation of foreign organizations that did not receive any response.“, the document reads.
For the Attorney General, the Odebrecht business group, Through one of his companies, in favor of Mr José Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mendoca, Dr.For the 2014 – 2018 constitutional period.
And he concludes:For the above, considerations and considerations, we consider that with the evidence provided and implemented, the assumptions regarding the exercise of sanctioning power will be accredited.“.
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However The case did not develop in the CNE and only now, thanks to Daniel García Arizabaleta’s confession and audio recordings of Óscar Iván ZulauagaThe former presidential candidate of the Democratic Center and his son will stand trial.
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