Colombia Prosecutors to Investigate President Petro's Son
By Reuters
| March 3, 2023, at 12:59 p.m.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office said on Friday it will begin an investigation into accusations that President Gustavo Petro's oldest son took money from drug traffickers in exchange for including them in his father's peace efforts.
Nicolas Petro, a lawmaker in Atlantico province, has said he has had nothing to do with the president's efforts to make peace or surrender deals with rebels and criminal gangs, and called the accusations "unfounded and harmful".
Petro said in a statement on Thursday he hopes his brother Juan Fernando Petro, who has denied similar rumors, and Nicolas will both have a chance to prove their innocence. The president had called for the attorney general's office to investigate and Nicolas Petro welcomed an investigation on his Twitter account late on Thursday.
A team of its investigators will meet with the woman who made the accusations against Nicolas in Barranquilla, the attorney general's office said in a statement, and will asses whether she requires any protection.
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First leftist President Colombia's ever had, and he's fought hard to work for progress for Colombian citizens every day of his adult life. He's the only leftist Colombian politician who ever lived to make it to the Presidency, although many have been assassinated in the effort.
