“I would like to express my solidarity with the Fecode union, which was raided today, the raid of a workers' organization that wanted to find out ways to remove the President of the Republic from the presidency,” Petro expressed during the event . “Actions for Life” in the town of El Charco, in the department of Nariño (southwest).
According to local media, prosecutors and the court conducted a search at Fecode's headquarters in Bogota as part of an investigation into alleged illegal financing of Petro's presidential campaign.
The investigation is based on the alleged donation of 500 million pesos (approximately $127,000) that this organization made to Petro's campaign, which was not reported to the electoral authority as required by law.
That's why the president, who governs this week with his cabinet from Nariño on the border with Ecuador, assured that he assumes that “the raids affected mafia organizations that finance politicians.”
“Now it's about workers' organizations because the president is not involved in the drug trade or politicians who are financed by the drug trade,” he added.
This is one of the investigations carried out by various authorities into the alleged illegal financing of the Petro presidential election campaign in 2022, in which, among others, the president's first-born son, Nicolás Petro Burgos, as well as congressmen Agmeth Escaf and Pedro Flórez are being investigated .
It all started when, last June, several journalistic publications revealed audio recordings of Armando Benedetti, the former ambassador to Venezuela and one of the people closest to Petro during the election campaign, in which he spoke about allegedly illegal funds he received as a presidential candidate had.
All this was the subject of investigations that later led to the arrest of Nicolás Petro on charges of illicit enrichment and money laundering, while also questioning the financing of the election campaign that led Petro to the presidency.
With information from EFE