The Colombian prosecutor’s office The accusation against the former presidential candidate will be filed next week before the Supreme Court of Justice Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and his son David for receiving payments from the Brazilian company Odebrecht in the 2014 campaign, so both will go to trial.
This was reported by the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, who said this Thursday in an interview with the W Radio station that “Next week the Attorney General’s Office, with its prosecutor delegated to the Court, will file an indictment against the candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and against his son”.
The official stated that this occurs because, as he understands, “there is no will to negotiate” of Zuluagawho was a candidate for the Uribista Democratic Center party, nor his son.
Last July, the Prosecutor’s Office accused the Zuluagas of several crimes, including illicit enrichment, and noted that the then candidate accepted for the 2014 presidential campaign, in which he lost in the second round with Juan Manuel Santos, an illegal contribution of US$ 1.61 million Odebrecht.
Zuluagaapparently agreed, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, with the then representative of the company in Colombia, Eleuberto Antonio Martorelli, to pay that amount to the Brazilian publicist José Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mendoça, known as “Duda” Mendonça, something that was never reported. reported to the electoral authority.
For this reason, the prosecutor formulated against Zuluaga two counts of falsification of a private document, three of procedural fraud and one of illicit enrichment of individuals; while his son is accused of procedural fraud. Neither of them accepted the charges.
According to the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, Zuluaga – who repeated as a Uribismo candidate in the 2022 elections but withdrew before the first round – and members of his campaign would have met with former executives of the construction company in Sao Paulo and Bogotá.
Source: Gestion
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