Armando Benedetti’s end-of-year trill against Néstor Humberto Martínez

Through his Twitter account, the senator attacked the former prosecutor, whom in the past he had already called a “ruffian” and had linked him to Odebrecht.

Senator Armando Benedetti added a new episode to the fight he has had for several years with former General Néstor Humberto Martínez on Wednesday night. Before the end of 2020, the congressman from Barranquilla once again attacked his opponent and through his Twitter account, Benedetti made an aggressive publication.

“Dr cyanide! Murderer, concealer, bandit, thief, RUFIÁN. THIS YEAR THAT COMES I WILL PUT YOU PRISONER! (sic), ”Benedetti wrote and, although he did not literally mention Martínez’s name, he did use various adjectives with which he has referred to the former prosecutor in previous times, as“ ruffian ”.

Benedetti’s quarrel with Martínez is long-standing and has to do with his Prosecutor’s Office and with Odebrecht. In November 2017, Benedetti called an explosive press conference in the Congress of the Republic in which he spoke about the request that the investigating body submitted to the Supreme Court to investigate him and other congressmen for alleged links with the corruption network international orchestrated from Odebrecht.

It was in that episode that Benedetti called Martínez a ruffian and accused the then prosecutor of putting the Prosecutor’s Office at the service of the former presidential candidate Germán Vargas Lleras. “The prosecutor is a rogue who lives off deception, who has launched a campaign to muddy my name. I have nothing to do with Odebrecht, it is a vile lie. I swear by my mother and my children that I have nothing to do with the ‘bulldozer’ (…) Néstor Humberto Martínez is captured by the political interests of Vargas Lleras, ”Benedetti said in dialogue with Blu Radio.

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At that press conference, and in subsequent interviews in the media, Benedetti launched serious accusations against Martínez and he responded with a complaint for libel and slander that ended, in September 2019, with Benedetti making clarifications about his words to avoid that the judicial grab continued.

On that date, both parties reached an agreement in the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court and avoided reaching the judicial courts. “It has never been my intention to point out or express that Néstor Humberto Martínez was responsible for the handling of bribes from Odebrecht,” Benedetti said when making some “clarifications and clarifications” when mentioning a possible relationship between Martínez and Odebrecht.

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Another chapter of the Benedetti-Martínez confrontation took place in the Congress of the Republic in a recent debate on political control, when the congressman summoned the Minister of Justice, Wilson Ruiz, to ask him for an explanation about a complaint he had filed against Martínez because he supposedly knew the illegal interception activities carried out by former officials of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Fabio Augusto Martínez Lugo and Luis Carlos Gómez Góngora.

“I am going to bring some tests in which Néstor Humberto Martínez sent them to profile, record, shoot, harass. Once those people did all that, they did it with support and within the Armed Forces, a whole group of intelligence from the Armed Forces to attack internal enemies. Who are the internal enemies? Those who were against the hegemony of the State, ”Benedetti pointed out.

At the end of the year 2020, Benedetti’s warning to Martínez is that he will take him to jail in 2021. Is there another judicial counterpoint between the former prosecutor and the senator?