For more than two hours, the Jobs of the Interior minister Luis Fernando Velasco, within the investigation that is followed by the scandal of the alleged allocation of millionaire contracts of the Invías.
In the development of this case, millionaire contracts with destination for different regions of the country are inquir, in addition to agreements in several areas, for the alleged addressing of resources to ensure votes of parliamentarians in the Public Credit Commission.
Within the framework of this process, at least 28 congressmen are investigated by the Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court, for facts related to possible influence peddling in the award of road works.
Upon leaving the diligence before the office of the magistrate of the Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court Marco Antonio Rueda Soto the former minister assured that he told what states and answered the questions that were asked in front of the case.
“It is the responsibility that a citizen has and I was cited as a witness by the magistrate to tell the Supreme Court, to his instructional room, which consists in front of an investigation that the instruction room is doing and that was what I said. I came and told everything that consists of me. Well, in front of this issue of contracting contracts, this chapter of shipping,” said Velasco.
Likewise, he emphasized “I told as a witness and as a witness I said what I know and answered what they asked me.”
Similarly, the ex -asor of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre), Jaime Ramírez Cobo, who rendered for about two hours a statement as a witness before the Supreme Court of Justice within this same investigation chapter.
At the end of the diligence he refused to give statements to the media, after pointing out that it is a declaration of a reserved nature by instruction of the Supreme Court of Justice.
This investigation advanced by the Supreme Court of Justice is based on the investigation that the Prosecutor’s Office compuls at the Court after receiving last March the testimony of María Alejandra Benavides, exassora of the Ministry of Finance, who gave information to the investigators about how the address of politicians’ to congressmen would have occurred in exchange for their support in the Public Credit Commission.
Between April 25 and on May 7, the Instruction Chamber cited six former government ministers of Iván Duque, such as Alberto Carrasquilla and José Manuel Restrepo, and four of the administration of President Gustavo Petro, such as: Ricardo Bonilla, Diego Guevara, María Constanza García and Luis Fernando Velasco.
/LaFM
