Court acquits Governor of Cesar Luis Alberto Monsalvo



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Last July, the Special Trial Chamber of that high court had issued the sentence for the crime of corruption to the voter, as he was accused of deceiving displaced families to obtain votes during his first campaign for that position, which he held between 2012 and 2015.

At that time, the high court said that the then candidate made a written commitment to the representatives of some 800 families displaced by the armed conflict who lived in the ‘Promised Land’, an invasion site in the city of Valledupar, to avoid the eviction of the property in exchange for votes that will support their aspiration.

However, now the magistrates of the Criminal Chamber found that the document he signed with those people It consisted of enforcing a guardianship so that they were not evicted from the area but not an illegal offer of benefits to obtain votes, indicated Snail News.

For this reason, Monsalvo Gnecco’s political promise was supported by judicial decisions that he could enforce if he took office, the Supreme Court said.

In this way, said Blu Radio, the departmental president He would go free this same Thursday, October 1 and he will be able to return to the Government of Cesar to exercise his position, for which he was re-elected during the 2018-2022 period.

The president is “the son of Cielo Gnecco and the dolphin of his powerful family group. […] He has always been considered as the heir to his family’s machinery, whose boom took place in the 1980s when they came to the department to invest in gasoline pumps and tractor trucks for the transportation of coal, ”El Espectador reported.



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