President Gustavo Petro will seem this Wednesday on the Prosecutor’s Office as a witness in relation to the case of leaked video recordings of his marketing campaign within the 2022 elections, referred to as the ‘petrovideos’.
In a message printed on social networks, the president expressed: “I’ll go to the prosecutor’s workplace to testify as a witness in regards to the ‘watergate’ that was carried out on my electoral marketing campaign. “Who have been answerable for intercepting my presidential marketing campaign communications for nearly a whole 12 months?”
The Prosecutor’s Office, for its half, specified that this assertion will probably be carried out as an interview on the Casa de Nariño, headquarters of the Presidency, carried out by an investigator throughout the framework of the investigation carried out by a outstanding prosecutor earlier than the Technical Investigation Corps. (CTI).
The ‘petrovideos’, leaked in June 2022, revealed non-public moments from Petro’s marketing campaign, together with electoral methods, conversations about financing and contacts with folks associated to drug trafficking. The targets of the soiled marketing campaign have been Petro’s potential rivals within the first spherical, amongst them Sergio Fajardo, Alejandro Gaviria and Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez.
In the recordings, methods to discredit rivals have been heard and it was prompt that Gutiérrez be linked to drug trafficking. Petro, at the moment, requested investigations into how conversations had been illegally recorded from the platform of his celebration, Colombia Humana.
Petro’s look as a witness is predicted to make clear the main points of those occasions and contribute to clarifying the ‘petrovideos’ case, which has generated controversy and debate within the Colombian political sphere.