The questions about the President that have prosecutor Burgos in disciplinary trouble

JUDICIAL

Last week the prosecutor Mario Burgos He was called to disciplinary trial on three charges. Due to his alleged responsibility in the leak of the interrogation of Nicolás Petro in the case of money laundering and illicit enrichment, and an alleged coercion so that the President’s son would negotiate with Justice. Another of the relevant positions for the Disciplinary Commission is a possible overreach of functions for having inquired about the President of the Republic.

In the document of the statement of objections, the Commission says that prosecutor Burgos allegedly incurred a willful offensebecause he knew that, in his role as prosecutor delegated to the Court, nor could investigate the actions of President Gustavo Petro.

He Prosecutor Burgos alleged that he did not investigate the head of stateI hear that the proof is that, during the interrogation of Nicolás, his lawyer did not object to any of the questions asked and copies were certified to the Accusations Commission of the House of Representatives.

However, the Disciplinary Commission think the oppositeIn said interrogation, the investigator and prosecutor Burgos are heard intervening only to ask about Nicolás Petro’s father, that is, the President of the Republic.

“On the other hand, in the neglect of the norms that regulate the comprehensive special jurisdiction of the President of the Republic (arts. 174 and 178 of the C Politics). The act was with substantial illegality as long as he was aware of his functions as a prosecutor delegated before the Courts, understood as “exercising criminal action before the Superior Courts of the Judicial District,” the order indicates.

This is the section that the Disciplinary Commission questions the prosecutor.

HE indicates in the statement of objections, that, the prosecutor Burgos would have incurred in an excess of functions and “put at risk the credibility of the administration of justice” and “greater degree of impact on the service, as it denotes the interest in obtaining information to achieve a criminal investigation of the Colombian leader.”