In previous days we were surprised by the news of an embargo for the sum of up to 1,600 million pesos ordered by a judge of the Republic, within an executive process against the mayor of Cúcuta, Jorge Acevedo Peñaloza, for alleged non-payment of a bill exchange for the sum of one billion pesos that the mayor, says the plaintiff (Ever Javier Arias Ibarra) and the letter presented in court, signed in mid-September 2023, at the end of the electoral debate in which Acevedo was elected, and the payment date is the first days of January 2024.
The mayor, in radio interviews and with this media, was quick to state that the aforementioned bill of exchange that was handed to him, he signed, is false and requested a handwriting test from the competent authorities.
The Attorney General’s Office must immediately take action on the matter, given this criminal news that the mayor, the highest authority of the metropolitan area of Cúcuta, made publicly.
From a bird’s eye view, the fact that the signature of the alleged bill was given on September 23 of the previous year and its payment was agreed upon barely 4 months later is seen as an inconsistency. In the hypothetical case that the debtor had not been elected, with what resources was his payment intended, if the debtor has been traced and indebted for the 3 previous failed campaigns and if he was elected as he actually was, how was his payment intended if not I would be able to collect my first salary. Not even a subscription.
In the same way, the lawyer Martín Santos published the Sisbén file of Mr. Ever Javier, where he is classified at level C1-C18 as a vulnerable person, of course, incapable of having that enormous amount of money.
The Prosecutor’s Office, within its line of investigation, must collect the income statements of the aforementioned lender to verify that it has that current asset, in which bank it had deposited that money and if it is paying its taxes as such. Follow the trace of the traceability, if applicable, of those resources, because with the background that lawyer Santos discovered about the location in Sisbén of Mr. Arias as a vulnerable person and, in addition, without such large resources, it is supremely suspicious that It deals with other punishable crimes that are very popular in our region, such as illicit enrichment or money laundering.
If Mr. Arias, out of ignorance or to earn some commission, was used for that trick against the mayor, legally it will cost him quite a lot, more than the commission that he was supposedly going to earn. His freedom.
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