Former Colombian paramilitary chief Carlos Mario Jiménez Naranjo, alias Macaco, revealed on Thursday the links of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) with well-known political and judicial figures of the New Granada nation to destroy the image of current President Gustavo Petro.
The AUC was an extreme right-wing paramilitary organization that participated in the internal armed conflict in Colombia from 1997 until its demobilization in 2006.
The statements were made during his participation in the "Meeting for Truth and Non-Repetition" held at the Center for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation in Bogotá.
In this regard, the ex-paramilitary —who is imprisoned in Colombia after serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the United States (USA)— former Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez and former Supreme Court President José Leonidas Bustos to destroy the image of Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
"I will provide detailed information regarding the unconditional support that former judge José Leionidas Bustos provided in multiple ways to Néstor Humberto Martínez with the firm intention of systematically prosecuting and destroying the image of the current president Gustavo Petro through the Prosecutor's Office," Mario said, quoted by the EFE agency.
However, the ex-paramilitary revealed that he will give more details about this complaint during the Single Hearing for Contribution to the Truth to which he was summoned by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
This hearing does not yet have a file.
"Macaco" stated that before the audience of the EHD It would provide details of how his organization infiltrated and corrupted high court magistrates in connection with holding presidential elections and other electoral processes in Colombia.
In addition, it will reveal other corruption schemes at the state level and what is known as "parapolitics."
"Toga Cartel" Case
One of the cases he plans to address is the "Robe Cartel," in which Supreme Court justices sought to facilitate legal proceedings in exchange for money, and to which Bustos is linked.
El "Toga Poster" It is a case of judicial and political corruption in Colombia, revealed in 2017, in which members of the Supreme Court of Justice committed the crimes of bribery and concussion.
This case revealed a network of deviation from the criminal action, leaving a balance of more than 50 captures and hundreds of extraditions.
In addition, he announced that he will make revelations about his organization's links with members of the public force of all ranks and military institutions in the areas where the paramilitary bloc operated under his command, the news agency reports.
In his audience he will announce the relationship with the multinational Chiquita Brand and with the Colombian business community, in addition, regarding the bleeding of the state company Ecopetrol.
It should be remembered that the transnational Chiquita Brands was sentenced by the US justice to pay 25 million dollars for having sponsored, from 1997 to 2004, paramilitary groups in Colombia.
