He President Gustavo Petro reacted to the decision of the Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which ordered the Preventive detention of the Senate’s former presidents, Iván Name, and from the House of Representatives, Andrés Calle, by the corruption scandal of the national Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD).
In context:
Through X, President Petro wrote that Name sabotaged the pension reform, “he fooled it seven months so that there will be no discussion time. He opposed all our projects, and now the prison goes, syndicated to steal the government and the people. ”
According to President Petro, the former president of the Senate He looked for a way to extract money to pay political campaigns in Bogotá.
It must be mentioned that Iván Name and Andrés Calle are prosecuted by the alleged reception of a bribe of $ 4 billion to favor the reforms of the national government.
Thus, the process will continue with a view to resolving if they are called to trial for the alleged reception of these monies in an apparent agreement with the former director of the UNGRD, Olmedo López; he former deputy director Sneyder Pinilla, and other government officials.
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