They announce political control over the audios revealed of the case Jesús Santrich

The Attorney General’s Office, in collaboration with the United States authorities, developed an operation to capture Jesús ‘Santrich’, accused of having participated in drug trafficking activities with the Sinaloa Cartel. The audios of the file against the former guerrilla chief revealed by El Espectador show the fundamental role of the Attorney General’s Office and they drew the attention of several opposition senators.

Precisely, this Tuesday several legislators filed a summons to political control the High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos, and the Minister of Justice, Wilson Ruiz for them to respond on the role of the Prosecutor’s Office in that process.

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The proposition presented by the senators Gustavo Petro, Roy Barreras, Iván Cepeda, Antonio Sanguino and Guillermo García Realpe They also include the invitation to the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, the attorney Fernando Carrillo and the president of the JEP Eduardo Cifuentes. Several of the questions made to the aforementioned are direct to the performance of the Prosecutor’s Office at that time under the command of Néstor Humberto Martínez.

The Spectator assures that among the questions included in the questionnaire of the summons were included those related to the reasons for the delivery of the five kilograms of cocaine by the accusing body, the prosecutor who authorized this procedure, and if the Colombian authorities were aware of the actions that undercover DEA agents were carrying out with Jesús Santrich.

Likewise, those mentioned were asked if the Prosecutor’s Office had “it is carrying out assemblies to finish the peace process ”. In a similar sentiment, it was questioned whether Santrich and Márquez, leaders of the dissidence Second MarquetaliaThey were “led into a trap” whose sole purpose was to end the peace agreement.

The file of ‘Santrich’, inactive in the Supreme Court of Justice, keeps more than 24 thousand audios, until today unknown, revealed by El Espectador, which were obtained through telephone interceptions made to Marlon Marín since January 25, 2017, in order to verify, at that time, if he was part of a corruption network in the health sector. But, the conversations revealed businesses that involve people from the national public life.

One of the conversations reveals the intentions of a businessman with a Bogota accent to open a nightclub or a restaurant in Cuba. Marín assured him that he could bring him closer to “the number one in the island’s government,” says El Espectador. The concessions, according to Marín, were granted for up to 40 years. It only remained to travel and agree with the Cuban government.

It was also revealed that, on February 25, 2017, Marín had entered into relationships with a man with a Central American accent who claimed to be the key to laundering money through Swiss bankers. The goal was for Marín’s partners to invest cash in Turkey that would be received by the opposition party to harm then-President Recep Tayyip and his caucus.

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Money laundering operations also relate to Vincent Schifano, New Yorker arrested today in the United States for this crime. The investigations against Shifano began in 2007, when according to a DEA agent, he himself assured having laundered 120 million dollars in Colombia for the FARC, through projects authorized by the Government, but he did not say who he was referring to. He even said that was able to launder up to $ 300 million to win the contract to build an oil pipeline. He reinforced the idea of ​​his power when he assured the DEA undercover agent, an apparent ‘Mexican capo’, that he had been laundering money for the Italian and Russian women for 20 years. His capture became effective on February 13, 2018, when Shifano met with undercover agents and received a brand new car with a fake $ 5 million. Days later, he was charged with attempting to launder $ 15 billion from ‘Santrich’.

For his part, former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez assured through a video that “the JEP failed in its duty to collaborate with justice in the Santrich case.” According to the statement from the former head of the Attorney General’s Office, The Constitution provides that the JEP must rule exclusively on the date of the offense that is the source of an extradition request, as a guarantee to the demobilized that this international judicial cooperation procedure will not be carried out if the crime occurred prior to the signing of the peace agreement.