Olmedo López announces in audio that he is ready to collaborate with justice

“In my more than 32 years of fighting for rights and freedoms I have had to face tough battles. Those who have done it like me know how difficult it is to follow orders even when you don’t agree.“says López, a former trusted official of the Petro Government.
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And after reiterating that he is not going to leave the country, he points out: “I am convinced of change (…) they take advantage of my silence. Well not anymore. I’m not going to allow them“.

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As anticipated by EL TIEMPO, he said that, through his lawyer, José Moreno Caballero, he requested protection measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), “to be able to tell what really happened, the whole truth“.
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​​And he announces that he has already asked the Prosecutor to listen to him in search of a principle of opportunity.

“That is why it is my duty to ask the general prosecutor of the Nation, Luz Adriana Ramírez (sic) to grant me a principle of opportunity with total immunity and give me security guarantees for my family to be able to inform them of the real facts regarding the process that I will face” says Lopez.

“(…) I will speak to the country with the truth,” says Olmedo López at the end of the audio.

In fact, a couple of chats from his cell phone that EL TIEMPO revealed, already generated the resignation request of Andrés Idárraga, Secretary of Transparency of the presidency, an entity for which the attorney general, Luz Adriana Camargo, worked until a few months ago.

In fact, it has been proposed a possible inability for the senior official to join the technical table that Casa de Nariño proposed to investigate this scandal that began after an investigation by EL TIEMPO.​

In fact, what began as a complaint in the media about some abandoned tank trucks in La Guajira, became the biggest scandal that the Petro government has faced so far after EL TIEMPO revealed that the UNGRD revealed for the first time that 46.8 billion pesos had been paid to a company that offers hardware items and meat from dead animals for human consumption: Impoamericana Roger SAS.
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In the first interview that Olmedo López gave after his resignation, he told ELTIEMPO that the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, had a lot to explain.

The senior official, key in the Petro government, responded: “Let them investigate. It is the typical response of a thief who is caught red-handed.“.

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Pinilla has already mentioned several people and there is talk of a list of 15 congressmen who would have received money from the UNGRD to vote. in favor of the government reforms in Congress (Health and Pension, and even the General Budget of the Nation) and some campaigns, facing the October 2023 elections. ​
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