Defense Minister Iván Velásquez launched a tough question on Sunday about the creation of an international commission against impunity in Colombia to help the Attorney General’s Office in the fight against corruption and drug trafficking.
“In Colombia, why are you afraid of an international commission against impunity that will help the Attorney General’s Office in the fight against corruption, even if it is limited to issues such as money laundering and the major contraband related to drug trafficking ?” the senior official wrote via his Twitter account.
This interrogation arose after the refusal of the public prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, at an event at the University of the Coast, about the creation of this body. Barbosa referred to Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva’s request to the UN regarding the establishment of an international UN commission to investigate the alleged entrapment of the JEP in the ‘Santrich’ case.
For example, the public prosecutor rejected the proposal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs because, according to him, the national judiciary operates. For this reason, he questioned the examples of an international commission set up in other countries, such as Guatemala, where it was actually led by the current minister Iván Velásquez.
“The only thing these commissions were used for in Central America was to create a legal crisis in our countries. They kicked them out of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras for a reason,” the attorney general said at the CUC event mentioned above.
It should be noted that Velásquez has headed the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala since 2013 and the investigations he conducted allowed President Otto Pérez Molina and Roxana Baldetti to be prosecuted as part of a massive customs fraud in the country.
Following the Defense Ministry’s response through social networks, several opponents of Gustavo Petro’s government have come out to basically refute Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva’s proposal and now Velásquez’s defense on the subject.
One of them is Senator Paloma Valencia who responded to Velásquez’s questioning via her official Twitter account with the fact that Colombia fears the creation of an international commission because of the alleged bad results they had in Guatemala and the criminal investigations carried out by the minister have been carried out. after leading the institution in the Latin American country.
“Because we have already seen how they used it in Guatemala to prosecute political opponents. Because you are under criminal investigation for your behavior in a similar commission. Finally, because there is a lack of justice for the victims, not for the terrorist.” Santrich,” condemned the senator.
Source: El Heraldo
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