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Former Deputy Attorney General Jorge Perdomo was preliminarily linked to the case that General (r) Rodolfo Palomino was called to trial for trying to stop the arrest warrant against a businessman investigated for forced displacement.
In accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office, former Deputy Prosecutor Jorge Perdomo could be involved in the influence peddling case against General (r) Rodolfo Palomino, who was called to trial a few weeks ago because in February 2014, as Director General of the Police, he entered the apartment of the prosecutor Sonia Lucero Velásquez, in Bogotá, whom she allegedly tried to stop in a capture operation against the rancher investigated for forced displacement, Luis Gonzalo Gallo.
According to the investigating entity, at that time Perdomo served as second in command of the investigating entity. At that time, in 2014, he was a subordinate of Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre. Now, according to the prosecutor delegated to the Supreme Court of Justice, the possible omission or participation of former Deputy Prosecutor Perdomo will be investigated, in the alleged constraint to the official Sonia Lucero Velásquez
In context: By Palomino case, copies are compulsory against Eduardo Montealegre and Jorge Perdomo.
On November 3, when Palomino’s indictment was read, the prosecution certified copies so that both former Deputy Prosecutor Jorge Perdomo and then Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre could be investigated. The investigation order, which became effective today, November 30, was issued after Week revealed some audios in which an official of the investigating body, Gina María Cabarcas, told Sonia Lucero Velásquez that stopping such capture was the idea of Montealegre himself.
“Also separately, copies were certified for the Congressional Accusations Commission so that, according to its competence, the possible behaviors that may have been incurred by the person who served as attorney general of the nation, Dr. Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, may have been investigated”, announced the Eighth Delegate Prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice. In the same audios, it was revealed that Sonia Lucero Velásquez, despite the alleged pressure, refused every time to stop the operation against Luis Gonzalo Gallo.
The opening of the investigation against Perdomo takes place, then, a month after the call to trial against Palomino. According to the Office of the Prosecutor delegated to the Supreme Court, the retired general would have incurred an act contrary to his legal and constitutional duties of service to the community. Specifically, it would have violated article 218 of the Magna Carta, which establishes that the main objective of the public force is to maintain the necessary conditions for the exercise of public rights and freedoms, and to ensure that the inhabitants live together in peace.
In context: Prosecutor’s Office read the accusation against General (r) Rodolfo Palomino for influence peddling.
Prosecutor Sonia Lucero Velásquez was recognized as a victim before the Supreme Court of Justice, following allegations by her attorney, Patricia Cantor: “Palomino’s visit caused a commotion inside the home, since there were the two sons of prosecutor Velásquez. Later, he received a call with a recorded message, indicating that there was a lot in the Immaculate Cemetery in Bogotá ”. For his part, the former director of the Police maintains his presumption of innocence and also stated that both he and the entity are the true victims of the process.
Meanwhile, retired general Rodolfo Palomino is waiting for his oral trial hearing for the crime of influence peddling to be installed. The former heads of the same prosecutor’s office, Montealegre and Perdomo, who were in command of the institution from 2012 to 2016, face the first phase of a criminal process, which depending on the investigations could end in the indictment of charges. In addition, it was learned that the former director of the Criminal Investigation Police (Dijín), Jorge Enrique Rodríguez, was linked to the investigations.
The queen test
The complaints of the prosecutor Sonia Velásquez are based on an audio obtained during the visit of the former director of the Police: a recording made with the same cell phone of the official, when General (r) Rodolfo Palomino would have tried to stop the operation against the businessman linked to forced displacement. When the investigating body presented the indictment, on October 16, it recorded the transcript of the conversation between the adversaries of the process.
–General (r) Rodolfo Palomino: Listen to me, doctor.
–Prosecutor Sonia Velásquez: Tell me.
– General (r) Rodolfo Palomino: So as not to take too much time.
–Prosecutor Sonia Velásquez: Yes, general.
–General (r) Rodolfo Palomino: (…) When one sees a work by this character, one says Gallo Restrepo, well one, one is surprised and it surprises everyone, right? I would like to convince you of a proposal and to be, well I hope it is not classified as an indecent proposal, what if we leave that for a while, let’s say, because being as he is … that man yesterday was doing in the States United a … through a foundation of him, a reception of … resources from donors precisely, uh … from pure philanthropists, people who with money want to help the most noble causes …
The general (r) continued speaking and then told the prosecutor:
–General (r) Rodolfo Palomino: That (the arrest of the businessman Gallo) would have an enormously serious connotation, what’s more, one might think that this person if at some point he could have invested in one of these properties, he would not do so with the purpose of perhaps (inaudible) someone, I would dare to think, I don’t know how you see that.
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