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This Wednesday, Juan Carlos Granados Becerra was elected in Congress as a member of the National Commission for Judicial Discipline, but in an unusual event it was known that he will be accused this Monday in the Odebrecht case, in the Special Trial Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
President Iván Duque appointed Juan Carlos Granados Becerra to join the commission, regardless of the questions against Becerra. In 2018, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, according to El Tiempo, charged charges for allegedly benefiting Odebrecht during its time in the Boyacá Government, between 2012 and 2015.
Despite the accusations, Granados was able to be Bogotá’s comptroller when the vote took place. After the indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office before the Superior Court of Bogotá, the trial went to the Special Chamber of Trial in First Instance of the Supreme Court of Justice. According to the capital newspaper, Granados will attend on Monday to respond to the accusation against him in the high court, a summons that was made on August 20.
The hearing will take place at 8:30 am and will be the magistrate Ariel Augusto Torres Rojas the person in charge of the process. Granados will begin his 8-year term as magistrate of the Judicial Discipline Commission on January 11.
It is striking that during these eight years, Granados must investigate and judge judges, lawyers and prosecutors, so if a case comes from those who are investigating it at this time, he must declare himself impeded. Granados has never accepted the charges brought by the Prosecutor’s Office and, on the contrary, maintains his innocence. But according to the Prosecutor’s Office, when he was governor of Boyacá he received money from the Brazilian company to award the Duitama-Charalá-San Gil highway.
Both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office have requested an assurance measure against Granados on several occasions, but the Superior Court of Bogotá refused to impose that arrest. The former governor of Boyacá agreed to meet Luiz Bueno and Eleuberto Martoreli, important Odebrecht executives, but maintained that he did so when he was governor and not as a candidate. He has always denied having received money to benefit the Brazilian company.
Further, lThe Prosecutor’s Office charged Granados with the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, undue interest in the conclusion of contracts and public servant influence peddling.
The prosecuting body says that the former governor would have received between 3 and 5% of the total value of the work. The process also includes an alleged payment that came through former senator Plinio Olano Becerra, of $ 200 million, which would have been used to finance Granados’ campaign to win his election as governor.
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