The Colombian government shudders, and the president of the country, Gustavo Petroreels after the revelations of his son, Nicholas Petroin court.
accused of money laundering Nicholas Petro confirmed that the complaint from his ex-wife, daysuris vasquezwho claimed that the president’s son obtained money from drug trafficking for his father’s presidential campaign and that he kept some of the money for his personal enrichment, is true.
According to the statement of Nicholas Petrothe campaign that led the leftist and ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro to the presidency of the country, was financed with a large sum of money delivered in suitcases by the drug trafficker Santander Lopesierra.
The reaction of Gustavo Petro Do not be late. In statements made from the Popular Campesino Assembly of Sincelejo, Sucre, the Colombian president denied the veracity of his son’s statement.
“If that were true, this president had to leave today because I am not Uribe, I am not Santos, I am not Duke, I am none of those who have passed,” he declared according to the local newspaper. Time.
“I come from a different way of understanding things, I don’t criticize others, but we come from something different, from another story, from another reality and from another sensibility,” he added.
Petro even denied the veracity of the transcripts of Petro’s statement in which he blamed him for financing his campaign with illicit money.
«My son didn’t say that. I have never told any of my sons, my daughters that they commit crimes. That has not existed, “she said. «My son will see. The only thing I can recommend is ‘from dignity, truth’ and never kneel to the executioner».
Likewise, he defended his attitude towards the case: «I am the first president who tells Justice to judge his son; not because other children have not committed crimes, which we know have, but because all the presidents protected their children before justice. It will cost me a lot, but I want to protect justice first… If we protect truth and justice, we will achieve truth and peace».
