The lawyer of Nicolás Petro Burgos, Juan Trujillo, denounced this Monday “serious irregularities” in the capture of the first-born of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, and regretted the “disproportionality” of the Prosecutor's Office in his arrest last Saturday since, according to what he says, they filmed him naked.

Trujillo also criticized that in the hearing in which the arrest in Barranquilla of Petro Burgos and his ex-wife Daysuris Vásquez was formalized, for the possible crime of money laundering, “the defense was not summoned, which has no way to dispute the disproportionality and the excess made by the Prosecutor's Office”.

“However, yesterday we informed the judge of some serious irregularities that were committed in the search proceedings, and the judge considered that the issue was indeed very serious, but required more evidence,” added the lawyer in statements to Caracol. Radio.

stealth operation

According to Trujillo, Laura Ojeda, Petro Burgos's current partner, who is eight months pregnant, recounted that “the agents of the Prosecutor's Office entered the apartment at six in the morning, stealthily, without knocking or ringing the door, so much so that they say that Laura's mom, who was awake, didn't hear anything, the dog didn't bark.”

In this context, “they opened the door to Laura's room, she was there naked, they recorded her, they recorded Nicolás entering the shower naked, they never stopped filming despite Laura's request,” Trujillo recounted. “These videos are held by the Prosecutor's Office, we do not have them,” said the lawyer, who has requested them because it would show that “there were serious irregularities.”

In addition, Trujillo denounced that the agents of the Prosecutor's Office rented an apartment in the residential complex where Nicolás Petro lives and had been living there “between one and two weeks” and from there they planned everything to carry out the operation without the need to present court orders at the gate. “as is normally done in these proceedings”. All this “would have done without the prior authorization of a guarantee control judge,” the lawyer concluded.

Trujillo also questioned that the alleged evidence that Nicolás Petro received illegal money for his father's campaign had been known for five months and, therefore, the capture would have had to be done then.

It is expected that this Tuesday the Prosecutor's Office will hold the hearing to charge Nicolás Petro for money laundering and illicit enrichment, and against his ex-wife for money laundering and personal data violation.

peter's capture

Petro Burgos, who is a deputy of the Atlantic Assembly, was arrested in Barranquilla as part of an investigation launched by the Prosecutor's Office last March.

The starting point was an interview by Vásquez to Semana magazine in which he recounted that Nicolás Petro received a large sum of money from a drug trafficker for the electoral campaign of today's President Gustavo Petro and that he kept that money.

According to Vásquez's account, drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra, alias “the Marlboro man,” gave Nicolás Petro “more than 600 million pesos (about $153,000 today) for his father's campaign.”

“That never reached the campaign legally because he kept that money, and so did others,” added the woman, who mentioned that Nicolás Petro also received 200 million pesos (about $51,000) from the controversial businessman Alfonso “Turco” Hilsaca, that neither went to give to the campaign.

President Petro, after hearing the news yesterday, stated: “As a person and a father, so much self-destruction hurts me a lot and the fact that one of my children goes to jail; as President of the Republic I assure that the Prosecutor's Office has all the guarantees on my part to proceed according to the law.”