BOGOTA.- The investigation chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia announced this Monday the opening of an investigation against the 20 senators of the ruling coalition Historical Pact for alleged irregularities in the 2022 campaign.
The investigation covers any possible relationship with the Ibagué Air Society (SADI) company, also involved in the financing of the Presidential campaign of the current head of state, Gustavo Petro.
Sources from the Supreme Court cited by the Colombian magazine Semana indicated that the investigation focuses on the income and expenses of campaign contributed by each congressman to the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The CNE itself issued formal requests to financial entities requesting details about the deposits made to the account of the company Sociedad Aereas de Ibagué. (SAD).
Among the deputies who will be investigated are Aida Avella, Roy Barreras (current ambassador to the United Kingdom), María José Pizarro, Martha Peralta, Iván Cepeda and Pedro Flórez, who has been accused of being an ally of the ambassador of Colombia before the FAO, Armando Benedetti, among others, Semana.com reported.
The Colombian media indicated that it had access to a document that revealed that SADI “was bought and put at the service of the presidential campaign, with the money from the acquisition of the company Dayli” Cop, a virtual cryptocurrency pyramid, linked to a million-dollar scam. in Colombia.
Meanwhile, the owner of Dayli Cop, Sebastián Betancourth, denied through his lawyer that the company’s money had gone to the presidential campaign. However, Omar Hernández, who is also a representative of the cryptocurrency company, stated before the country’s Prosecutor’s Office that he was aware of a meeting between the manager of the presidential campaign, Ricardo Roa, and Dayli Cop delegates, reported vanguard.com.
And according to one of Hernández’s lawyers, Víctor Muñoz, the company contributed money to Petro’s campaign without reporting those funds. Muñoz reported that in a meeting between Roa and one of the partners of Daily Cop, Juan José Benavides, it was agreed that the Historical Pact campaign would use a plane with registration number HK-5328 for the tours of Petro, then a candidate.
Both the candidate and the then senator Armando Benedetti, who toured the country on several occasions, would have traveled on that aircraft.
“The money with which a small plane was purchased and the campaign flights were financed comes from an illicit product, in this case from a massive fundraising from the Daily Cop company,” said the lawyer, who added that the purchase of the plane so that the contribution did not have to be reported to the CNE.
Source: With information from Europa Press / Semana.com / Vanguardia.com
