Ambassador Francisco Santos will denounce former President Juan Manuel Santos for slander and insult

The Colombian ambassador in Washington, Francisco Santos, announced in an interview with Semana, that he will file a criminal complaint against the former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) for accusing him of making offers in the last presidential campaign in the United States.

In a talk with Vicky Dávila and Salud Hernández Mora, the Colombian ambassador to the United States, Francisco Santos, assured that he is will file a criminal complaint for the crimes of slander and libel against his cousin and former president, Juan Manuel Santos, for the accusations of allegedly offering his help to the then candidate and president of the United States Donald Trump, in the last presidential campaign.

“Faced with the accusations of the president, I am not going to say anything, but my lawyer Iván Cancino is currently filing a criminal complaint (…) as Juan Manuel is a common citizen right now, he will have to answer before a judge and the judge you will have to ask the corresponding questions “, the ambassador, Francisco Santos, mentioned to Semana Tv.

These legal actions occur after the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos assured in a dialogue with W Radio, on Monday morning, that Francisco Santos spoke with a Pentagon contractor to ask how he could help President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential campaign in United States.

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“There is a strategist, a Pentagon contractor, who has helped Colombia a lot in past governments. That person was called by the ambassador and asked, “Do I want to see how I help Trump, how can we do something to help Trump? And he even mentioned the possibility that Duque could go to the United States”Santos said in the interview with W Radio.

In turn, Juan Manuel Santos mentioned that this Pentagon official, who contacted him, He told the ambassador about these offers, not to make that mistake, “that madness.”

Likewise, he assured that the contractor of the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense told Francisco Santos that this offer to intervene in the campaign “It could be illegal.”

By last, The former president assured that the ambassador in Washington should be changed because there is a “quite negative” environment that adds to the events mentioned to the station.

For his part, Francisco Santos stated, in his talk with Semana, that it was not true that he had relationships with Pentagon contractors, since he has only had an institutional relationship and that He did not know the origin of Juan Manuel Santos’ version, but that he will have to tell a judge of the Republic.

“One of these lies, one wonders why? They leave one absorbed. It is very sad, in addition to a person who is the former president, a person who has a Nobel Peace Prize, a person who believes thinks beyond smallness “said Francisco Santos.

Finally, he stressed that the most important thing is that justice is going to call Juan Manuel Santos to give a statement where he will have to tell the truth and show the evidence he has.

“Because I’m absolutely sure he has no proof”, the ambassador sentenced to the middle.

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