Supreme Court orders the capture of Senator Eduardo Pulgar and the U party suspends his membership

By order of the Supreme Court of Justice, Senator Eduardo Pulgar Daza of the La U party was captured at the El Dorado Airport when he tried to leave the country. The crimes for which he is accused are bribery, influence peddling and crimes against democratic participation.

In a statement issued by the high court, the “Special Investigation Chamber, based on article 330 of Law 600 informs (…) it imposed a measure of assurance of preventive detention in a prison for the senator of the Republic, Eduardo Enrique Pulgar Daza, for the alleged commission of the crime of influence peddling in a homogeneous competition ”.

For its part, the U party suspended Pulgar’s membership after the news of his arrest at El Dorado Airport, reported the director of the community, Dilian Francisca Toro, in an interview with La FM.

The senator was recorded offering a judge “200 bars” to apparently favor some of his friends in a business, El Tiempo reported.

Pulgar appeared in October before the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice on the occasion of an investigation in the process that is being brought against him for alleged bribery of the former judge of Usiacurí, Atlántico, Andrés Fernando Rodríguez Caez.

The session, which lasted one hour, was attended by the gauge with his attorney, Jaime Granados, known for defending former President Álvaro Uribe in the case of alleged procedural fraud against him.

Apart from its responsibility before the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office is also carrying out a disciplinary process against the senator of ‘La U’ for the crime of bribery.

Even through a virtual hearing, at the beginning of October, the Public Ministry opposed the case ending in the Ethics Commission of Congress.

‘200 bars’

“If the guys are wise, if I say to him: ‘hey, doc, this pod is worth 200 bars’, he says to me: ‘At what time and where?’ Thus, to speak clearly. I tell you the truth. Here’s a business. I believe. I don’t know if you want to talk alone”Is heard in the audios revealed by journalist Daniel Coronell, columnist for the Los Danieles portal.

According to El Tiempo, the case in which Pulgar functions as an intermediary is the dispute over the inheritance of Jacobo Acosta Bendek, which included control of the Acosta Bendek Foundation, the Metropolitan University and the Metropolitan University Hospital Foundation.

Therefore, in 2018, The Prosecutor’s Office charged executives of these entities for conspiracy to commit a crime, procedural fraud, ideological falsification in a private document and obtaining a false public document. Among the accused is Luis Fernando Acosta Osío, for whom, allegedly, Pulgar served as an intermediary.

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