After SEMANA revealed the explosive audios between former senator Aida Merlano and Armando Benedetti, the Supreme Court revealed the other legal mess that the process of the current ambassador to the FAO has for the investigation of alleged unjustified increases in assets.
This “chicharrón” of powers began when the Supreme Court opened an investigation into Benedetti for the crime of unjustified increase of his assets when he was a senator, but as soon as he finished his term in the Congress of the Republic, the process passed into the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office. General of the Nation.
With that last change, The Prosecutor’s Office declared that it did not have jurisdiction to carry out that process, but Judge César Reyes, who was the rapporteur of that case in the Supreme Court of Justicealso refused to let his office be aware of that investigation.
This move caused the conflict of powers between the Investigative Chamber of the high court and the Prosecutor’s Office to be blocked, so the process now went to the Plenary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice so that, through the file, assigned to the magistrate Francisco Ternera of the Civil Chamber, the case against the current Ambassador of Colombia to the FAO for alleged unjustified increase in his assets will be resolved in the hands of whoever will be left.
For the high court, the togada had no jurisdiction to carry out the investigation against the current ambassador to the FAO that was started from the purchase of an apartment and money transfers abroad. all because At the time of being appointed as ambassador, the jurisdiction once again passed into the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office, but Judge Lombana would have continued inspecting Armando Benedetti’s file.
At that time, the Court showed that “from the very moment in which the action of the reference left this Special Investigation Chamber, destined for the Attorney General’s Office, by jurisdiction, the Honorable Judge did not cease her efforts because the same would be restored to her.”
Currently, Beneddeti has seven processes in the Prosecutor’s Office that are in the investigation and investigation stages and now the latter is still in the Plenary Chamber of the Court to try to resolve the conflict between the Investigative Chamber and the Attorney General’s Office.
