Nicolás Petro Burgos _son of the President of Colombia, Gustavus Petro_, on Sunday denied allegations of corruption and ties to drug traffickers denounced by local media and for which he is under investigation.

“I am fully inclined to appear before the control entities and affirm my innocence (…) The money in question does not come from the mafia, nor from corruption, nor from any illegal activity,” said the deputy of the Department of Atlántico (North) for President Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement.

Day Vásquez, ex-wife of Nicolás Petro, accused him in an interview with the magazine Week to arrest links to drug traffickers and smugglersin addition to receiving money for Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign that he actually used to pay for a luxurious life, according to her, behind his father’s back.

The communication medium published the transcript of several WhatsApp conversations between the then couple in which they talk about movements of large sums of money, the purchase of a mansion worth more than $330,000 and corrupt dealings with ministers.

In one of the transcripts, the eldest son of the president of the interior minister, Alfonso Prada, claims to have received ten “quotas” for jobs for lawyers in his circle and asks his then-wife to find resumes of relatives .

to the revelations of Weekother media outlets came along and published bank statements showing monthly expenses in excess of a deputy sheriff’s salary.

On Thursday, before Day Vásquez’s accusations, the president asked the prosecution to investigate his 36-year-old son and his brother Juan Fernando Petro. to determine whether they have offered drug traffickers benefits in exchange for money under official peace initiatives.

Nicolás Petro announced in the statement that he is “stepping aside” from politics and his father’s left-wing coalition while his “innocence” is verified.