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Legal Medicine ruled that the health conditions faced by the congressman of the U Party can be treated in a prison.
The Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice denied the possibility of replacing the security measure that was ordered against Senator Eduardo Pulgar, who is facing a judicial process for alleged influence peddling and who is being held in the La Picota prison in Bogotá since last December 1st. The senator’s defense had submitted the request claiming that he was ill, which is why a concept had been requested from Legal Medicine.
This document, this newspaper learned, assures that Senator Pulgar “is not in a condition of serious illness.” Legal Medicine pointed out that, in effect, the congressman has health conditions but that they can be managed in a prison. For that reason, the petition was denied and Senator Pulgar will continue to face criminal proceedings while in custody.
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Senator Eduardo Pulgar was captured by order of the Investigation Chamber as a preventive measure, estimating that he carried out an illegal action, before the Presidency, the Ministry of Education and a judge of the Republic who tried to bribe, in order to obtain a benefit own electoral nature. For the Court, Pulgar acted “with abuse of the function and the position” that he holds as a congressman to favor Luis Fernando Acosta Osío, in the middle of a dispute between cousins for control of the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla.
Pulgar proposed to Judge Andrés Rodríguez Caez to help him, that there was “a business” for $ 200 million in a meeting. Given his refusal, in a new meeting held in the office of David Name Terán, Luis Fernando Acosta Osío told the judicial servant about Pulgar’s mediation before the national authorities in the matter. Both meetings were recorded and announced by journalist Daniel Coronell: “I want to appeal to the good relationship that you have (the judge and the former mayor of Usiacurí, Ronald Padilla, who introduced them) to see if you can help me, brother . That university gives me some very important votes and additionally… There is a business here… You tell me… and I go and say: pa ‘this play is worth so much and let’s go ahead. It’s that simple ”, is heard in the audios revealed by the journalist.
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Pulgar told him about “200 suits”, which would be a $ 200 million “reward” for the judge if he agreed to his request, which did not happen. In another recording, corresponding to the conversation with the judge, the interests of the congressman were recorded. “The guys are worried and I tell you the truth, what worries me the most is the political pod that is nine months away, it’s my choice and that pod is a hole, those guys help me there with scholarships, they give me stands. I tell you the truth and when the campaign starts, they throw me a banknote ”. And furthermore, in the conversation, he insists on exposing his political role and the possible influences that could move in the future if they “help” each other: “I already met a judge and you met a senator, here we go in the life, ”he told her.
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This Tuesday, the Civil Service and Consultation Room of the State Council determined that the disciplinary process that is being carried out against him is the responsibility of the Attorney General’s Office and not of the Senate Ethics Commission as requested by the defense of the congressman. When solving a conflict of competences, the Chamber indicated that the case should indeed be studied by the Attorney General’s Office because the fact that is entrusted to it, in principle, “does not correspond to a congressional function, but to a possible act of corruption.”
“The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation has disciplinary jurisdiction over popularly elected public servants, especially when the conduct corresponds to a corrupt act.” The decision indicates that the recent decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Gustavo Petro, which indicates that a person elected by popular vote cannot be removed, does not prevent the entity from taking up the case. The decision was reviewed by the Attorney General’s Office, which at this moment is led by Fernando Carrillo Flórez and which in January will be led by the elected Margarita Cabello Blanco, whose friendship with Senator Pulgar is known.
