This was ordered by a Colombian judge Nikola Petro Burgosthe eldest son of Colombian President Gustavo Petr and his ex-wife, daysuris vasquezthey respond freely, but with limitations, to the trial they face for money laundering and other crimes, a case that engulfed their father’s government.
He Municipal criminal judge 74 with the functions of guarantee control accepted the requests of the defense and ordered that the security measure requested by the prosecution in the case of Nicolás Pedro Burgos is not necessary.
“The bail judge in the case, thanks to the cooperation commitment of the two defendants obtained by the prosecution, imposed Peter Burgos and Vázquez Castro non-custodial measure and are still being linked to the criminal investigation,” the prosecutor’s statement reads.
However, the judge ordered that The accused will not be able to leave the country or “from the area where they were captured, the city of Barranquilla”.
The couple was arrested last Saturday, and three days later The prosecutor’s office accused the president’s son of money laundering and illicit enrichment public servant, and Vásquez those for money laundering and violation of personal data.
The arrest was made as part of an investigation that the prosecutor’s office opened last March Vásquez told Semana magazine that Nicolás Petro received money from drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra, known as the “Man of Marlboro.”for today’s president’s campaign and who appropriated it.
In another hearing held yesterday, the prosecutor in the case, Mario Burgos, said that after accepting a cooperation agreement with the courts, Nicolás Petro revealed that some of the allegedly illegal money he received went to his father’s 2022 election campaign.
“He is strictly prohibited from communicating with the people who gave him the money of illegal origin and with any of those involved,” the judge told Petro Burgos, who also banned, like Vásquez, “participation in any political event”.
As part of the cooperation agreement, the president’s son has already promised to resign from the position of deputy in the assembly of the Atlantic Divisionwhose capital is Barranquilla.
Judge He also ordered that the couple be investigated for crimes of interest improper execution of contracts and falsification of documents, in addition to those already accused.
“Obviously, criminal copies will be certified in order to unjustified interest in concluding a contract and I think that goes beyond the orbit of this criminal behavior by Peter Burgos and others who may be participating,” the judge said.
This decision is based on audio recordings presented to the court by the prosecutor, which show this the couple had a network of influence peddling, bribery and other illicit things on the Atlantic, taking advantage of Nicolás Petro’s deputy status.
Giving them the opportunity to respond to the process at liberty, the judge said this both must “observe good behavior” and they “are obliged to respond to all summonses sent in the name of this process”, either by the court or by the prosecution.
So much the prosecution as well as the defendants and their lawyers accepted the judge’s decision and they said they would not complain.
Source: Panama America
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