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Sources from the high court confirmed that the congressman, investigated for the alleged offer to a judge of the Republic, was detained at the El Dorado airport and will be sent preventively to a prison.
Supreme Court sources confirmed to The viewer that the senator of the U Party, Eduardo Pulgar Daza, was captured at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, on the morning of this Tuesday, December 1. The congressman, who is being investigated in the high court for the alleged bribery he did to a judge from Usiacurí (Atlántico), in exchange for making judicial decisions in favor of sponsors of his political campaign, is already under preventive detention and You will be sent to a prison facility.
The high court pointed out that the capture of the congressman took place by order of the Special Chamber, with a presentation of the magistrate Marco Antonio Rueda, for the crime of bribery for giving or offering, influence peddling and possible electoral corruption, within the investigation that is being carried out. advances against him related to offers to a judge of the Republic. The investigation that muddied the senator began this year after the journalist Daniel Coronell, in a column entitled “Thumbelina”, on the website The Danieles, broadcast some recordings made by Judge Andrés Rodríguez, in which the senator is heard trying to bribe him with respect to a case of the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla.
As it is heard, Pulgar would have made the offer with the intention of favoring a political ally of his, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío. “I want to appeal to the good relationship that you have (the judge and the former mayor of Usiacurí, Ronald Padilla, who introduced you) to see if you can help me, brother. That university gives me some very important votes and additionally… Here is a business… You tell me… and I go and say: pa ‘this play is worth so much and let’s go ahead. It’s that simple ”, is heard in the audios revealed by the journalist. Pulgar told him about “200 suits”, which would be a $ 200 million “reward” for the judge if he acceded to his request. Which did not happen. The publication caused a stir and quickly, both the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office announced inquiries in this regard.
The recording also reveals that the senator tells the judge and the former mayor: “This has to stay between the three of us because the guys are worried. What’s more, the guys tell me: if you have to go there, I’ll go; but the ideal is that they are not going to say anything. Rodríguez, who is no longer a judge because his appointment was provisional, told a prosecutor on duty. In the audio, the response of the robed was forceful: “Senator, in principle I accepted the meeting here this morning, through Mayor Ronald, but I am a very serious man. You are talking to me about business, I am not for that ”.
In 2017, the year in which the events allegedly occurred, the legal dispute for control of the Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla was at a fever pitch. Due to judicial congestion, the case was transferred to the promisuco court of Usiacurí (Atlántico), where Andrés Rodríguez received it. The process involves the family of the late Senator Gabriel Acosta Bendeck, whose daughter, Ivonne Acosta, was left in charge of the institutions founded by her father: the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla, the Acosta Bendeck Foundation and the Metropolitan Hospital of Barranquilla. Together they generate annual profits of $ 80 billion, enough to start a conflict with other family members, including Luis Fernando Acosta Osío, Ivonne’s cousin, for control of the institutions.
Control of the organizations founded by former Senator Gabriel Avosta is a bitter dispute that is still alive and full of allegations of corruption. On February 7, for example, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Magistrate Jorge Enrique Mola Capera with three crimes who, apparently, ruled several guardianships in his favor. The magistrate is already on trial and, during the hearing for the indictment of charges against him, the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that, according to the evidence, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío was “the protector and beneficiary” of magistrate Mola.
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