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Debates are held in Congress so that society is informed; diverse theses and versions are heard on matters of national interest and the control of power works. The dialectic is of the essence of the parliamentary forum. However, the senators citing the debate on the ‘Santrich’ case wanted to inaugurate a new modality of parliamentary democracy: the monologue and the lockdown, as a mechanism for manipulating public opinion. Very typical of the authoritarian left of the neighborhood. But the trap did not prosper thanks to the president of the Commission, Miguel Ángel Pinto, who invited the prosecutor of the time to participate in the session.
(Read on: Video of Santrich thanking those who defend him for the coca case).
No one is surprised that Petro, Cepeda, Sanguino and Barreras have raised their voices in defense of the rebels involved in drug trafficking, while keeping absolute silence in the face of the return of the minors; the breach of delivery of goods by the FARC; the lack of commitment to the truth in relation to the recruitment of minors and the expansion of illicit crops and the Farian dissidents in the areas of consolidation.
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Loyalty
It was said in the debate that the Prosecutor’s Office was acting unfairly against the peace agreement, to harm it, to the point that everything was done behind the government’s back. Lie.
Very early, a few months after the signing of the agreement, the Prosecutor’s Office found that a sector of the demobilized had unholy relationships with drug traffickers. For example, on February 22, 2017, the capture of the person responsible for the expansion of coca cultivation in Nariño, Tito Aldemar Ruano -alias Don Ti-, was frustrated because he entered the rural area of the former Farc, located in Tumaco , under your protection! That scandalous! I reported this and other crimes to the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, in a letter dated July 10, 2017, and the following month I endorsed new criminal acts that compromised “non-repetition.”
The senators summoning this debate, who proclaim themselves ‘friends of peace’, prosecute the Prosecutor’s Office for not being an accomplice of drug trafficking
Worried about what was happening, I escalated the problem in front of the head of state. In fact, on October 19, 2017 I delivered a 17-page document, in which I detailed “information, interceptions and other evidence that would prove the continuity in the drug trafficking activity and other crimes by former members of the Farc, with after the signing of the peace agreement (and) the collusion of some of these with members of the dissidents that operate in the south of the country ”, for which I requested the immediate convocation of a National Security Council.
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The Government had detailed information on what had happened until then. Two weeks later, on November 1, 2017, a fatal and irreversible event unfortunately occurred: the famous transaction of the 5 kilos of coca.
It was not entrapment
At the beginning of 2017, in the framework of an investigation against some industrial gentlemen who were depleting health, there was access to a negotiation that they were forging with the nephew of ‘Iván Márquez’ to put the money from the social security of veterans. The negotiation failed because the Minister of Health, Alejandro Gaviria, was crossed. Immediately they lined up batteries to the resources for the productive projects of the post-conflict; As is known, Marlon Marín collected 5% of each contract “for him and his family.” He was also caught peddling influence so that some extraditable people could be certified as demobilized from the Farc. It will be possible that today the Prosecutor’s Office will be sued for having investigated these violations against ethics and the law.
In the midst of all these scandalous negotiations, with the money that Colombians reserve for ex-combatants, which never deserved the public censure of the senators summoning the debate, it was learned of a cocaine transaction that the protagonists called “televisions” in their communications. Until that moment, the investigation had not been directed against any of the demobilized leaders.
Once all the pieces of the investigation were put in order, it was learned that when they proposed to Marlon Marín the transaction of 5 kilos of coca, he looked for ‘Santrich’ because “I had previously heard that he had connections with people who produced this material (COCAINA ) and ‘Santrich’ tells me that he has all the contacts to be able to provide for these people ”, as he declared in court.
What is clear is that the Prosecutor’s Office did not trap him. It was Marín and ‘Santrich’ who “alone” got into this mess.
More serious still, it is said that Armando Gómez, who delivered the negotiated coca, was a DEA agent. But also, absurd: it would be the first case of an alleged collaborator of the American justice that is extradited and imprisoned in the United States.
It was not from the prosecution
Without blushing, the senators said in the debate, following the score of the shameless defense they assumed, that the 5 kilos of coca from the “controlled delivery” belonged to the Prosecutor’s Office and not from Marlon Marín’s gang. Central theory to support the entrapment thesis.
That transaction, carried out on November 1, 2017, was documented by Gaula, through a “controlled delivery”, as has been said so many times. The “controlled deliveries” are operations in which judicial police attend the crime scene to leave evidence of the delivery of goods that are part of a crime. It is nonsense to think that there are controlled deliveries of coca that are not by drug traffickers.
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In the testimony given by Marlon Marín on May 16, 2019, he stated that the five kilos of coca were sent to him alias ‘Santrich’, through aliases ‘John’. And to close this nonsense about the origin of the drug, in a document dated November 26, the Prosecutor’s Office demonstrated in detail the reasons why “it is not true that the narcotic substance came from the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.”
The delivery of the audios
Another act of the debate had to do with the defense of the JEP in this case. It was repeated there that the Prosecutor’s Office had 24,000 audios that it did not deliver to the transitional justice system.
The lies told so many times end up turned into truths. If they exist, the 24,000 audios must correspond to three files that were at the Prosecutor’s Office around Marlon Marín, related to health businesses; post-conflict contracts; the certifications of extraditable as demobilized; money laundering and the business of “televisions”.
The JEP affirms that the Prosecutor’s Office only sent him 12 audios “within investigations carried out against Marlon Marín Marín, but not against Seuxis Paucias Hernández”, despite the fact that in 2018 the JEP always knew that the existing investigations were against Mr. Marin.
In any case, this debate of the audios is closed in good time by the Prosecutor’s Office, in the document that it sent to the Senate this week that ends, in which it states: “Since no audios of other investigations were requested nor was any inspection decreed judicial within this case, according to the information provided by the prosecutor in charge of the same, the latter it limited itself to forwarding only what was requested by the Review Section ”.
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On the other hand, the summons chorus to claim that I had not sent the famous video of ‘Santrich’ to the JEP. As far as is known, an authentic, complete and audio copy of this video was obtained by the Prosecutor’s Office through judicial cooperation, after my retirement, on May 16, 2019. However, more serious than the accusation against me, It is the accusation to the US Government that the video it shared with the Prosecutor’s Office is manipulated and is a vulgar montage. I have no doubt that the American justice system has already taken note of the incident. It is a shame that Colombian congressmen think that this is how the most respected justice in the world operates.
Finally, public opinion must learn that the JEP itself, by denying citizen Fabio Younes the guarantee of non-extradition on November 28, affirmed that the famous indictment, which involved both Younes and ‘Santrich’, proves that the events occurred “at least (since) June 2017, or around that date, up to and including April 2018”. That is to say, Judge Cifuentes and the other members of the Appeals Chamber easily noticed the date of occurrence of the events, what the Review Section could not do in over a year.
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The day of my possession as Prosecutor I said, with a firm voice, that “profits would not coexist with crime.” It was the corollary of the principle of “no repetition”. The senators summoning this debate, who proclaim themselves “friends of peace”, prosecute the Prosecutor’s Office for not being an accomplice of drug trafficking, for the failure to deliver goods to compensate the victims, for the attempt to appropriate the money for the victims. veterans. Who is right?
NÉSTOR HUMBERTO MARTÍNEZ NEIRA
For the time
