Both in the investigation carried out by the Supreme Court of Justice into the accounts of the Historic Pact campaign to the Senate; As in that of the National Electoral Council (CNE), for the alleged violation of the limits of the Petropresident 2022-2026 campaign, Carlos Eduardo Restrepo Osorio, ‘Caco’, is mentioned.
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EL TIEMPO revealed that the captain surrendered to United States justice, on June 8, 2023, for his ties to drug trafficking. Furthermore, although he said that he had distanced himself from the Ibagué Air Society (Sadi SAS), appears in a chat with Armando Benedetti and Laura Sarabia, arranging air travel in the midst of the presidential consultation on the Historical Pact.
Cryptocurrencies, flight hours and mafia
This is the plane that they would have put at the service of the campaign as a contribution in kind.
Photo:Provided by Carlos Vélez
Both the Court and the CNE are investigating whether there were more flight hours by Sadi SAS than those officially reported by Ricardo Roa, manager of the Petro Presidente campaign and today head of Ecopetrol; and by Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillomanager of the Pact campaign and today Minister of Health.
In fact, EL TIEMPO established that Colombian authorities have officially asked their counterparts in the United States to give them access to ‘Caco’ to establish how he arrived at those campaigns. Furthermore, if it is true that he is a front man for the brains of the Daily Cop cryptocurrency, they would have made a contribution in kind (the Superking 300 HK5328-G plane) to the Petro campaign.
The movements in Tampa
This is the permit issued by the Tampa Court granting Carlos Eduardo Restrepo a family visit.
Photo:TIME.
Roa categorically denied the allegations that continue to be investigated in the Prosecutor’s Office after the testimony of Omar Hernández, Daily Cop liaison.
And although it has not been officially known If ‘Caco’ is going to cooperate with the Colombian justice system, in Tampa his case has moved in a particular way.
Initially it was said that at least 18 years in prison awaited him. Then it was said that they would give him time served for the collaboration he has provided.
And now, EL TIEMPO established that, for the third time, the sentence was postponed and that he has just been granted a fine.
Documents in the possession of EL TIEMPO indicate that The Tampa Court granted him permission for a family member to visit him at the Citrus County Detention Center (Florida). The permits that are processed are those of his father (linked to Sadi SAS), his mother, his wife and children.
“The Court took into consideration the request of Mr. Restrepo Osorio addressed to the director of the prison, to allow a family visit contact“says the document, dated June 13.
New date for sentencing
Omar Hernández declared that he knows of Dayli Cop brain meetings with Ricardo Roa. The latter denies the allegations.
Photo:TIME / Carlos Vélez
In addition, the reading of the sentence was postponed again. Now it will be August 27, at 9:30 in the morning.
“It is clear that he is negotiating. That is why the sentencing hearings are being postponed and the benefit of family visits is being granted.“a federal agent told EL TIEMPO.
Meanwhile in Colombia circulates the version that ‘Caco’ has sent to offer some land to cover debts, including the small plane seized in Providencia full of cocaine that is linked to the mafia organization with which he had business..
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