Armando Benedetti asks the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate threats against him

The processes that breathe down the neck of Amando Benedetti

Armando Benedetti is, without a doubt, the political protagonist of the week. He put the government on the ropes, left open many questions about the financing of Petro’s campaign, distanced himself from Laura Sarabia and his audios set social networks to vibrate.

By being left out of the Government and leaving the Colombian Embassy in Venezuela, Benedetti’s judicial panorama is not the most celestial. There are several processes that are filed against him:

• illicit enrichment
• money laundering
• Case of Populated Centers (it has been denounced)
• phone case
• Chuzadas a Symmetric
• Insult and slander

It should be remembered that both Fonade and illicit enrichment were left in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office after the Supreme Court determined that, since Benedetti had not been serving as a senator when the events occurred, such an investigation was outside its jurisdiction.

In the specific case of illicit enrichment, magistrate Cristina Lombana fought several times for the process to continue in the hands of the high court, but the Prosecutor’s Office insisted on keeping the process. According to Benedetti, she was able to justify all the money that was questioned: 2,919 million pesos.

As for the Fonade case, it should be remembered that it all began with a complaint filed by the lawyer Jaime Lombana Villalba, who assured that the former ambassador, together with other congressmen (Benedetti was a congressman at the time) contributed to favoring the Simetric company in the award of a contract. Everything, apparently, in exchange for bribes from Fonade.

Undoubtedly, one of the most recent cases but also one of the most media coverage is that of Populated Centers, where 7,000 million pesos ended up lost in the transfer of the Government to this Temporary Union to strengthen Internet connectivity in the most remote and vulnerable areas. from Colombia.

Karen Abudinen, then ICT minister, argued that Benedetti, who was officiating as a senator, called her several times to pressure her to hand over the contract to Centros Poblados.