El principio de oportunidad de Sneyder Pinilla y la prueba contra MinHacienda

0:00 At the WU, Colonel' s report in Colombia is seven in the morning and fifteen minutes. Here' s Daniel Colonel with his report. Good morning. Good morning, John Paul. This is the report Colonel declare against several officials, senior officials, including the Minister of Finance, spend five and a half years in prison, pay the fines associated with the conviction and return the public money from which he appropriated. These are Snader Pinilla' s commitments to the prosecution to access the principle of opportunity. Next Thursday, July 25, the agreement will be signed between the former deputy director of the Ungred National Disaster Risk Management Unit and the research entity. Pinilla has insisted on another point that cannot be resolved by the prosecution, but by the judge to whom the case belongs. This is the definition of their place of detention. He argues that he cannot be sent to a ward of public officials for the simple reason that a large part of those mentioned by him are civil servants. Instead, he calls for his detention in a military facility that provides him with security. The Office of the Prosecutor has reiterated that this decision is not in its hands, but that, when the time comes, it will support before the judge the

1:30 request of the Pinilla defense if all other points are being complied with, especially the delivery of evidence that will allow high officials and contractors to be prosecuted before the judges and congressmen involved in the Supreme Court of Justice. In the last few hours, initially journalist Sylvia Charry of Cambio magazine and later other media outlets revealed a line of communications time that has to do with the planned allocation of three times allegedly to pay parliamentary votes. These contracts are those of Cotorra in Cordoba for fifty billion pesos, Salado Bolívar for twelve thousand three hundred fifty million and Sara Ben in Arauca for thirty zero million. The instruction to make these contracts, which total more than ninety- two million, came from Carolina Martínez, the advisor to the director of the Jerez de Olmedo López, and was left in a voice note saying that the agreement with those three mayors was expedited, because auro quotes. If you don' t drop what you' re doing in Congress, I want to tell you or help you talk to the director. This is sent to me by the congressional adviser, the interior minister and Dr. Carlos Ramón del Dapre. He has always sent out certain requests for the director of the settire, understanding that he is the congressional liaison.

2:59 In fact, it' s all the same. He calls me to tell me what' s so important that we tend these three mayors, because if they don' t drop it, I don' t know what they drop what they' re doing in Congress. You haven' t said, I don' t know how important it is I' m sending it to you so that, please, you help him ask if it' s really important or they don' t drop what they' re doing in Congress. Recording alone doesn' t mean that much. It is the listening version of an official who mentions the then Minister of the Interior, Luis Hernando Velasco, and the then director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency, Carlos Ramón González.

3:40 What is really serious is the timeline that drives these facts and how it is unfolding. First, the communication you just heard happened on Tuesday, December 12, last year, at six to nine minutes in the afternoon. Please note that ordinary sessions of Congress are scheduled to end on 16 December, which was Saturday of the same week. Second, a few hours later, at ten and fifty- six on Tuesday night, Olmedo Lopez sends you messages from Whatsappa snetter Pinilla that you can see on the Writ page reiterating the urgency of those three contracts. Third, on Thursday, December 14, at six o' clock in the afternoon and four minutes as the close of the legislature was approaching, the Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla writes to him Snatehr Pinillas telling him Comillas Good afternoon, Deputy Director worried about the destination of resources viabilized projects, Sierra Comillas. Just two minutes later there' s a phone call from Minister Bonilla Ai Snader Pinilla. It is unusual for the Minister of Finance to have communications with a junior official of an administrative unit under the Presidency. Snader was

5:13 not even the second of the NGORED, but it is by itself very revealing that a relatively minor official receives calls from the head of the country' s financial portfolio. Check if that was really the Bonilla Minister' s number and it is also the image that appears in the Whatsapps is also the one that the Minister is still using today. The fifth element of this chronology is given the following day, on 15 December, at eleven in the morning and two minutes, when Pinilla sends a message from Whatsapp to the Minister of Finance.

5:58 Three hours later, she contacted Minister Bonilla' s advisor, María Alejandra Benavides, and Pinilla' s communications and calls continued with her and with interested parties in the three contracts. That is to say, the Minister' s call articulates these two parts and puts Snateder Pinilla in communication with his advisor, who then gives him messages from the Minister telling him about the importance of these three contracts. In response, I asked the Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, to hold an off- the- record conversation to learn his version of the timing of these communications. The Minister kindly replied, by the way, from the same number that appears in the communications with Pinilla told me that for now it is not possible, but that he will gladly speak to me only when his lawyers review the testimonies and the evidence. This last word of evidence put it in quotation marks. This gets complicated every day. Ministers Sabaz, Pretel de la Vega and Diego Palacio went to jail for similar events. After many pauses come and go. They were convicted of the crime of bribery for offering and handing over gifts to congressmen to favor the approval of the constitutional reform that allowed the re- election of then PresidentÁlvaro Uri. The case seems to be a matter of no less than offering public works contracts to ensure approval of

7:32 projects of interest to the Government, the opening of a preliminary investigation to the Minister of Finance by the prosecution foresaw what may come. This was today' s Colonel report.