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The decision of the Chamber of Instruction of the Supreme Court that ordered the arrest of the congressman affirms that he used his influence to favor Acosta Osío in the family lawsuit by the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla.
The Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered the arrest of the congressman of the U Party, Eduardo Pulgar, as allegedly responsible for making undue representations to the Government and even trying to bribe a judge, offering him $ 200 million, to favor a friend hers in the middle of a family dispute between cousins for control of the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla. That acquaintance is Luis Fernando Acosta Osío, whose name and role in this framework did not go unnoticed by the high court.
It is about one of the members of a powerful family on the Colombian Caribbean coast that has an internal dispute over the university center that was founded in 1973 by former senator Gabriel Acosta Bendeck. Internal differences erupted in 2016 when Ivonne Acosta Acero, daughter of the former congressman and member of the Board of Directors, removed Luis Fernando Acosta Osío and Gina Díaz Buelvas from that collegiate body. The reaction of the then founding members was to create a new council, remove Ivonne Acosta’s husband from the rectory, and appoint and seek the registration of their own delegates with the Ministry of Education.
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In that family dispute and in the run-up to a hearing in which the facts surrounding the removal as rector of Carlos Jaller Raad (Ivonne’s husband) were to be examined, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío sought out Senator Eduardo Pulgar and expressed his “Concern” about what could happen in said diligence. It was because of that warning that Pulgar, in search of the political profits that the University brought him in the campaign for Congress, would have initiated the undue steps that today have him in La Picota prison while the investigation against him advances.
As recorded in recordings, Pulgar sought out the judge who was responsible for leading that hearing and offered him money (“200 bars”) to favor his friend and even asked the judicial server, who rejected his illegal offer, to at least postpone diligence to be able to show management to his acquaintances. Before doing so, he sought, according to Thumb himself at the meeting, officials in the Presidency and the Ministry of Education. And then, in another meeting at David Name’s office in Barranquilla, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío insisted to Judge Andrés Rodríguez Caez about those efforts. Everything, as a way to seek “help” from the official.
The 157-page decision of the Supreme Court highlights some sections of what Acosta Osío said in that diligence that was recorded by the judge himself and that the high court considered legal. “I’ll tell you something, Pulgar helped us with the minister and I assure you that the minister had no money through anything, nor do I believe that this man has told her to go silver,” he says at one point. And in another section, Acosta Osío assures that all this mess began with the change of Carlos Jaller from the rectory.
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“(…) we changed it because the pods he had made were discovered, I do not go into details, but then we named Uncle Gabriel’s son, who is Ivonne’s brother,” he said. The Court takes his sayings and those of Pulgar himself, to insist that the congressman did make representations to third parties in the family mess, using the influence of his position, as in the matter of registration with the Ministry of Education. And he points out that, without a doubt, “the beneficiary of his management (…) is (is) no other than Luis Fernando Acosta Osío.” In addition, the Examining Room indicated at least once that it sought to favor Pulgar with his testimony
“The proof of the charge found support in two other significant circumstances. The first, that the action of the Ministry (of Education) in the registry of the legal representative of the universities is not restricted, as the aforementioned Luis Fernando Acosta Osío attested to, to exclude the possibility of any influence from Senator Pulgar Daza, to a mere act of registration devoid of any possibility of scrutiny or control, ”says the Court in a section.
“In the leaflet a context is accredited in which, contrary to what was declared by Luis Fernando Acosta Osío, if it was viable, even possibly required, at least to expedite the action, the influence of Congressman Pulgar Daza”, adds the Court. This management sought to register the legal representative designated by the family by the family side of Luis Fernando Acosta Osío. This, looking for a personal income. Pulgar himself told Judge Rodríguez Caez, now in exile, that:
“Those guys help me there with scholarships, they give me stalls, I speak the truth and when the campaign starts they throw me a bill, I’m not going to deny them anything, I’m going to deny that and the guys are judicious. If I tell people ‘hey doc, that pod 200 bars’, they tell me at what time and where, and if to speak the truth clearly, I tell you, the truth is there is business here ”. In the process before the Court, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío testified on July 15 and admitted the meeting with the judge in the office of David Name Terán and recognized his own voice in the recording that was made public.
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However, Acosta Osío said that the audio was edited because it supposedly did not collect all the particularities and incidents of a meeting that was longer. In addition, the Court outlined in the document, it excluded any mediation by Senator Pulgar Daza before the Ministry of Education in favor of the Metropolitan University and said it ignored the meaning and motive of the statements that Pulgar Daza made to Judge Rodriguez Caez about the existence ” of a business ”. And he said that the University is not anyone’s political fortress and that it does not finance political campaigns or give scholarships.
However, in the extension of testimony, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío no longer recognized his own voice when the Examining Room brought him the audio of the full meeting held with David Name and Judge Rodríguez Caez and although he admitted that there was such quote, questioned the originality of the recording. For now, this investigation remains in the hands of the Examining Room, which announced that several evidence still needs to be collected and that to prevent this from being done, the preventive detention of Senator Pulgar was necessary.
