Supreme Court will no longer investigate Gustavo Bolívar for alleged financing of the First Line

Gustavo Bolívar, to face charges for alleged financing of the First Line in the Prosecutor’s Office: the reasons. Colpress.

The Supreme Court of Justice announced, on the morning of this Wednesday, January 18, that it declared itself unable to continue investigating former senator Gustavo Bolívar, of the Historical Pact, for the alleged financing of the First Line in the framework of the 2021 National Strike.

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The case will go to ordinary justice in charge of the Attorney General’s Office, since the writer no longer holds his seat in the Senate of the Republic. It will be in the entity headed by prosecutor Francisco Barbosa that the course of the investigation against Bolívar will be defined, who is accused of having provided resources to the protesters to disturb public order during the protests of the then Uribe president, Iván Duque.

“For reasons of competition, it is ordered to refer the action, in the state in which it is found, to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, so that it adopts the determinations that are of the case, in accordance with the provisions of articles 251, numeral 1 , 325 numeral 5 and paragraph of the Political Constitution, modified by articles 1 of Legislative Act number 6 of 2011 and 3 of Legislative Act number 1 of 2018”, the Court assured in its ruling.

The Court referred the investigation against Gustavo Bolívar to the Prosecutor’s Office. Archive.

In this line, the high court assured that the other proceedings related to the case of the former congressman of the Historical Pact must be sent directly to the accusing entity and not to the magistrates of the Court.

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The complaint against Bolívar had been filed by the lawyers Víctor Mosquera and Bernardo Jaramillo, who since 2021 warned that the Vaki that the former senator created to provide resources to the protesters had served to provide them with elements with which they would have committed cases of vandalism. and terrorism in the capital, from April to June of that year, when the so-called social outbreak against the Duque government broke out.

It must be remembered that the litigant Mosquera is not only one of the main detractors of the writer, but is also a defender abroad of former President Álvaro Uribe, another of Gustavo Bolívar’s critics.

Margarita Cabello supported the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office and assured that: “peace cannot be above the Constitution”

The request to suspend the arrest warrants against members of the Clan del Golfo and the Pachencas was made by President Gustavo Petro within the framework of the total peace program

In his lawsuit, the lawyer claimed that with the money that Bolívar gave them, the young protesters had been able to buy helmets, glasses, food and other elements that allowed them to defend themselves during the protests that were characterized by the police brutality of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad ).

Bolívar created a vaki to give money to members of the First Line in the protests against Iván Duque. colpress

Bolívar’s defense remains in the hands of lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, who since the legal actions against his client were instituted, assured that all he wanted was to provide elements of protection to the protesters and, under no circumstances, finance the events vandalism that occurred in those times.

“The senator intended to buy protection elements because, when he did the Vaki, there were young people who went out to protect others from the attacks of the public force, specifically the ESMAD, and several cases of aggression had already been proven. That was the motivation, ”said the lawyer in 2021.

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