Bogota. The eldest son of President Gustavo Petro will address his defense under the figure of “provisional release” after a guarantee function judge decided this Friday afternoon not to send him to prison despite charges of illicit enrichment and money laundering that weigh against you.
Amid great expectations from the public, which follows the case as if it were a soap opera, the judge in the case took several hours to expose an indecipherable legal gibberish before announcing that he will not send Nicolás Petro to jail, thus adding another ingredient to this melodramatic plot whose first chapter began at dawn last Saturday when Petro Jr. and his ex-wife, Day Vázquez, were arrested in the city of Barranquilla.
Nicolás Petro obtained the benefit of “probation” after declaring yesterday that a good part of the money of illicit origin received by him and his ex-wife during the year 2022 went to his father’s electoral campaign. According to sources close to the investigation, this serious accusation is only the beginning of a strategy by the president’s firstborn before indulging in a figure called the “principle of opportunity” through which he could even get rid of all the accusations against him. .
Judicial experts explained that this would be possible if Nicolás Petro provides the Attorney General’s Office -as he has offered- credible and sufficient evidence to demonstrate that resources of illegal origin reached his father’s campaign.
Petro Jr.’s ex-wife was also released, but both will have mobility restrictions and will be prohibited from approaching other procedural subjects involved. The judge went beyond the Prosecutor’s request for the president’s son to receive “home detention.”
