Nicolás Petro, son of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, admitted that the money of a man convicted of drug trafficking entered his father’s presidential campaign, in the middle of a collaboration process with the prosecutor’s office that accuses him of money laundering.
Nicolás “received large sums of money from Mr. Samuel Santander López Sierra, known as the Marlboro Man” and convicted of drug trafficking in the United States, “part of this money was used by Mr. Nicolás Fernando Petro Burgos himself (…) and another part of these were invested in the 2022 presidential campaign,” said the prosecutor in the case, Mario Burgos, during a court hearing this Thursday.
