The nation's attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, announced this Tuesday that he is investigating Nicolás Petro, the eldest son of the president of Colombia, for a possible crime of money laundering.
In the forum
The State of Justice in Colombia,
organized by Prisa Media, Barbosa explained that the investigation unit searches his assets to determine that they are not linked to criminal activities.
In the WhatsApp conversations revealed by Nicolás's ex-wife, the couple talks about buying a luxury house in the city of Barranquilla with money that a businessman had contributed to Petro's presidential campaign.
The siege on Nicolás Petro tightens.
His own father asked the prosecutor's office to investigate him on March 2 after hearing the testimony of his former partner, Day Vásquez.
She accuses Nicolás of receiving money for the electoral campaign that allegedly never entered the accounts of the Pacto Histórico, the left-wing coalition for which Petro was a candidate.
One of the donors was a man who served time in the United States for drug trafficking, Samuel Santander Lopesierra, known as
The Marlboro Man
because of his time as a tobacco smuggler.
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