From the Headquarters for the Presidential Protection of the Republic of Colombia rejected the accusations made in the magazine Semana against Laura Sarabia and they delivered an official version of what happened where they assure that they acted with the law in hand.
“The Head of the Presidential Office was the victim of a theft at her residence in January 2023. On the 29th of that same month, the respective criminal complaint was filed with the competent authorities. In accordance with the legal architecture that governs the security of high-ranking officials of the Colombian State, established in Decree 2647 of 2022, when there are incidents that violate their security and that of their environment, all the actions provided for in Decree 1066 of 2015 are immediately activated”.
Official statement of the Laura Sarabia case
They assure that it was not a common or domestic theft, but something that could put the risk, according to them, of national security: “The above, in order to establish porosities or risk situations, not only individual but of national security, however the circle of people that surrounds high officials can compromiseFor example, access to classified information.
They reiterate that at no time was there an abuse of power and they rejected the versions that were generated from Semana Magazine: “We reject versions of alleged abuses of power, misuse of public resources and mistreatment of defenseless people. The procedures were carried out in the offices of the Headquarters for Presidential Protection, visible, duly identified and arranged in that same location for many years ago.
They assure that, to prove this, all the evidence is already in the hands of the judicial authorities: “The reliability procedures carried out for all the people in the circle of the Head of the Presidential Office have all the authorizations required by law and They consist of audio and video in the custody of the Presidential Protection Headquarters, and are available to all competent authorities.”