Video | Sergio Fajardo called ex-prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez a “great fiasco”

This Thursday, November 26, in the First Committee of the Senate an intense debate was experienced in which opposition congressmen supported with evidence how former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira allegedly led a montage against Jesus Santrich to link it with drug trafficking.

In the midst of the discussion that was formed on social networks, especially on Twitter, by what was revealed by senators Gustavo Petro, Iván Cepeda and Roy Barreras, A video of 2017 of the then presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo, went viral due to the opinion that the politician had about Martínez Neira.

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In the video circulating on the social network, the former candidate is heard saying: “The most important person in the country today in the fight against corruption is the prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez”.

Of course, the video went viral and several users attacked the politician for his opinion against the questioned former prosecutor.

“’Néstor Humberto Martínez is the most important person in the fight against corruption’: Sergio Fajardo. The joke is told alone ”; “If Sergio Fajardo had been in Congress today in the debate against the former Attorney General, during his speech he would add that: ‘The most important person in the country today in the fight against corruption is Prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez’ ”; are some comments that are read on Twitter.

Sergio Fajardo’s reaction

This Friday, Fajardo reacted to the video that is being shared on Twitter and posted on his account: “They tell me that a video where I referred to Néstor Humberto Martínez, who was recently inaugurated as a prosecutor in 2017, is viral. Fake News example. Here is the complete video ”.

In the post you will find this video:

Finally, the former presidential candidate concluded: “He was a great fiasco for the country, he cannot be believed and he does not deserve any recognition”.

Case against Jesús Santrich for drug trafficking, the epicenter of the debate in the Senate

One of the points for which this debate was cited was to question the role of the Attorney General’s Office in the operation against Jesus Santrich for the shipment of a cocaine shipment to the United States.

For Gustavo Petro, the facts show that the Martinez Prosecutor’s Office “There was an entrapment of peace (…) What the Prosecutor’s Office did together with DEA ​​officials was a setup, it was a lie”.

The senator criticized Marlon Marín, Iván Márquez’s nephew who, according to Petro, was a “swindler” and a “liar” and would have collaborated to ensnare Márquez and Jesús Santrich.

During the debate, Senator Petro exhibited an audio in which agents allegedly scold each other for simulating the voice of Iván Márquez. For the political leader, it is clear that there was a falsification of Márquez’s voice and that Santrich was tricked into falling into the trap of an alleged drug trafficking negotiation with those who appear to be members of the Sinaloa Cartel, but in reality they were DEA agents. .

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For his part, Iván Cepeda said in the debate that the operation against negotiators of the peace process carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and the DEA since June 2017 “does not withstand any rigorous examination.”

“It is not true that it was an ‘autonomous or parallel operation’ by the DEA. Since mid-2017, as recognized by Martínez Neira in his book The two faces of peace, there were three meetings with US judicial authorities “, explained Iván Cepeda.

The first, between December 7 and 8, 2017, was held with the presence of the United States Attorney, Jeff Sessions. The second occurred on December 28, 2017. In it, Ambassador Kevin Withaker and the judicial attaché of the embassy, ​​Marlon Cobar, visited Martínez to talk about clues of alleged drug trafficking businesses that could involve members of the former FARC. Martinez says in his book ‘The two faces of peace ‘ that he told them that the DEA teams and the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office meet so that “the hoses would not cross”.

Finally, in January 2018 there was a joint meeting between investigators from the DEA-SIU (Special Investigation Unit) group of the CTI and DEA agents “and the decision was made to bring the case before the grand jury in New York. got accusation.