On the morning of this Monday, June 24, sources from the Military and Police Criminal Justice Prosecutor’s Office They confirmed for the first time to EL TIEMPO that around 8:30 in the morning they began a judicial inspection of the Narino Palaceheadquarters of the Presidency of the Republic.
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The objective is to rebuild the polygraph test to which former nanny Marelbys Meza was subjected -January 30, 2023- and therefore, 20 experts from the Judicial Police, Dijín, at the service of the Military and Police Criminal Justice Prosecutor’s Office will tour the Galán building, where the test was carried out and which is adjacent to the Casa de Nariño; the area where the control cameras and the anticipatory offices are managed – from where the security of President Gustavo Petro is coordinated – and the office of the Colonel Carlos Feriahead of security, these two points located at the headquarters of the Presidency.
According to sources, The process is expected to last no more than an hour.which will be recorded with a high-tech drone – unique in Colombia and acquired in the United States – that sends and records images in real time.
The polygraph test was given on January 30.
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The sources consulted by this newspaper highlighted that the Casa de Nariño has facilitated the procedure and authorized the use of the drone.
Parallel to this, sources indicate that on Wednesday of last week, the The Attorney General’s Office formalized the indictment against Colonel Carlos Alberto Feria “for her responsibility and direct knowledge of the polygraph test to which Marelbys Meza Buelvas was subjected on the afternoon of January 30, 2023.”
Colonel Carlos Feria Buitrago, head of the Presidential Protection Headquarters.
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At that time, Meza worked in the house of Laura Sarabia, who served as head of Gustavo Petro’s Cabinet. The investigation began with the theft of a sum – in dollars – from Sarabia at her residence.
In the judicial procedure – the presentation of the indictment by the crimes of embezzlement for use, abuse of public office and illegal constraint-the defense representatives stated that there was already a conflict of jurisdictionsas guarantee control judges of the ordinary justice, as well as the Military and Police Criminal Justice, had claimed the jurisdiction to investigate, accuse and try the police officers involved in this case.
Carlos Feria and Marelbys Meza
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Along these lines, it was learned that Prosecutor 2203 of Specialized Knowledge of the Military Criminal Justice, the Lieutenant Colonel Jhon Eduardo Niñothe same person who ordered the judicial inspection that is being carried out, informed the Constitutional Court of the positive conflict of powers “which de facto has already arisen between judges of the two jurisdictions, a case that fell to the office of Judge Vladimir Fernández Andrade, who will be in charge of defining said conflict.”
At the time of the events, Fernández was the Legal Secretary of the Presidency, and President Petro nominated him for the position. So he would eventually have to declare himself unable to resolve the conflict.
Alicia Liliana Méndez – Justicia Editorial – @JusticiaET – [email protected]
