“The only enemy I have today is the President and the President’s son”: Prosecutor Burgos

JUDICIAL

“The only enemy I have today is the President and the President’s son”, that was the confession that he prosecutor Mario Andrés Burgosstated in the free version that he gave in January of this year before the Judicial Disciplinary Commission, and it is one of the reasons why that High Court called him for a disciplinary trial.

Caracol Radio knew the entire list of charges against prosecutor Mario Burgos, who is in disciplinary trouble for his alleged responsibility in the leak of the interrogation videos, capture of Nicolás Petro, due to alleged pressure and an excess of functions for wanting to investigate the President of the Republic despite the fact that he does not have the power to do so.

The controversial phrase

The document has 89 pages, and in the analysis carried out by the Judicial Discipline Commission Regarding the third chargethe overreach for investigating the head of state says the following:

Being aware that he has functional limitations to investigate the President of the Republic, he indicated that he has no investigative act against him.

However, the same videos exposed, as well as Petro Burgos’s statement, distort what was said, since in them he is observed asking out loud about said matters. Furthermore, he continued with the insistent search for him by sending Víctor Forero to Barranquilla to ask about Petro Urrego’s visit to his son, and corollary to this is the complaint before the Commission of Accusations.

Which demonstrates the latent interest in the search for information that would allow him to structure his complaint, as well as, this is corroborated bywhen he in free version signalto spontaneously “the only enemy I have today (…) is the President and the President’s son,” question that confirms your intention to search for informationin the case of some action against his, by him, declared “enemies”.

For the Judicial Discipline Commission, there is sufficient evidentiary support to support the charges brought against prosecutor Mario Burgos, and for which he is going to disciplinary trial.

Recovery is coming

The prosecutor Mario Burgos would have to declare himself impeded, by confessing before the Judicial Disciplinary Commission, he activates a new cause for deviate from the process that is being followed against Nicolás Petro for money laundering and illicit enrichment .

The Criminal Procedure Code (Law 906 of 2004) establishes in ART 56, section 5 the following:

“5. That there is an intimate friendship or serious enmity between any of the parties, complainant, victim or injured party and the judicial official”.

Lawyers consulted by Snail Radio They consider that given this evidence and considering that the General Disciplinary Code imposes on all public servants the duty to declare an impediment -when there is some cause for it-, the Prosecutor’s Office could evaluate the viability of initiating a criminal investigation for the crime of prevarication by omission.

Article 414. Prevarication by omission. Penalties increased by Law 890 of 2004: The public servant who omits, delays, refuses or denies an act inherent to his duties, will incur a prison sentence of thirty-two (32) to ninety (90) months, a fine of thirteen point thirty-four. three (13.33) to seventy-five (75) current monthly legal minimum wages, and disqualification from the exercise of public rights and functions for eighty (80) months.