The former president of the Senate, Iván Name (Green Alliance) spent his first night imprisoned for the alleged reception of a millionaire bribery within the corruption scandal that hits senior officials and former government officials of Gustavo Petro.
For the Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court there is sufficient evidence to believe that Name received 3,000 million pesos in cash from the then presidential counselor for the Sandra Ortiz regions. She herself says she was still instructions by Carlos Ramón González, then head of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre).
The reaction and the apartment
Oswaldo Medina, agent of Sandra Ortiz. Photo:Private archive
The penalist Jaime Lombana, attorney for Name, told El Tiempo that he respected the Court’s decision although he disagreed the need for the assurance measure for a person who has always given the face to justice and does not represent a danger to society.
And in parallel he assured that, in addition to reading the providence in its integrity, The first thing he would do is ask the Court to investigate the alleged purchase of a luxurious apartment by Sandra Ortiz in northern Bogotá, for the same time in which she admits to having been the issue of the delivery of bribes.
Iván Name, along with his attorney Jaime Lombana. Photo:Private archive
Oswaldo Medina, Representative of Ortiz, he went out to reject the information and qualify it as a distractor for the Court: “Lombana’s statements in addition to being false, seek to divert attention from the court of instruction of the court.”
Time investigated and He established that there was a purchase of a luxurious property in Bogotá where Sandra Ortiz lived, a native of Boyacá, until a few months ago Name’s friend, both of the Green Alliance, as well as Carlos Ramón González.
The trail of ‘Pedro Aguilar’
Sandra Ortiz, Ricardo Bonilla, and Carlos Ramon González, all prosecuted for looting to UNGRD. Photo:Private archive
In your statements To the Prosecutor’s Office Ortiz said that the emerald Juan Sebastián Aguilar, known as Pedro Aguilar or ‘Pedro Pechuga’, had accompanied her to give Name the money.
Se tRat of the gem merchant killed on August 7, 2024 in an exclusive Bogotá condominium at the hands of a sniper. The crime was calculated on April 6 when his partner, the powerful emerald Jesús Hernando Sánchez was killed in the same set.
Time He investigated and established that both emeralds appear in the negotiation of an apartment where Sandra Ortiz then lived.
The papers and the $ 1.2 billion
This newspaper established That it is an apartment of about 200 square meters located in race 6 with 131 street, in the tower A of the Hills Ph building
This is the certificate of the apartment where Hernando Sánchez appears Photo:Time
Time communicated with Adriana Botero, a lawyer from the Aguilar Mendieta family and this assured that, according to the traceability of the purchase, it was evidenced that in the certificate of the property who appeared it is Hernando Sánchez.
This newspaper agreed to the property certificate and, Indeed, Sánchez appears initially acquiring it, for 1.2 billion pesos, on November 30, 2017.
“Hernando Sánchez sold that apartment to Juan Sebastián Aguilar. Sandra Ortiz does not appear as owner although it was the place where they (Ortiz and Aguilar) were. She lived there in that apartment“The lawyer explained.
Hernando Sánchez (left) was killed in the same set where they killed ‘Pedro Aguilar’. Photo:Private time/ file
In addition, he said that as Aguilar lacked money to cover the cost of the property and could not use the money from his conjugal society, he took out a housing leasing at Banco BBVA: “Mr. Aguilar’s heirs did the procedures and stayed with that property.”
In the writing of leasing Yes, the name of Juan Sebastián Aguilar appears as a buyer of the property.
The delivery of good
Entrance for the seventh race to the Hills building, where Sandra Ortiz lived. Photo:Private archive
In documents, Sanchez appears acquiring Leasing in May 2024, three months before the crime of its partner and compadre Pedro Aguilar, for a amount of 1.4 billion pesos.
And while Allegados point out that the rest of the money was the result of a crossing of accounts, it is not yet clear how much it was given in cash, how much of the leasing and how much of the cross between emeralds.
The time established that on September 30, 2024, a long month after the crime of Aguilar, Sandra Ortiz He delivered the good, located a few blocks from the house where Pedro Aguilar lived with his family and where he was killed: Marqués forests.
The Court will define if it agrees to investigate The theme and origin of the monies with which the site where Sandra Ortiz lived, today in the school of Cabineros de Bogotá was acquired.
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