The Superior Court of Cartagena sentenced the active councilor to 48 months in prison of the capital of Bolívar César Pión, and former city councilor Américo Mendoza for malfeasance by action.
According to the high court, Pión and Mendoza, as president and vice president of the council, would have issued 18 resolutions in 2011 that favored the readjustment of fees in several of their colleagues and former colleagues for a value that exceeds $7,609 million pesoswhile the city is condemned to poverty by its rulers.
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Statements on ruling issued by the court of Bolívar regarding an action that dates back to 2012
As a public person we are respectful of court rulings and will act based on the law to demonstrate the legality of our actions. pic.twitter.com/MaqzLWiy39
— Cesar Pion (@cesarpiong) February 2, 2022
“We public men have to be respectful of the law and comply with judicial rulings,” said César Pión in a video that he made public on his social networks.
He orders disqualification from exercising public functions for a term of 80 months and requests that arrest warrants be issued against César Augusto Pión González and Américo Elías Mendoza Quesep and the serving of a sentence of 48 months in prison under the house modality. for jail.
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“We don’t hide, we show our faces and we respect the law, and if we have to pay for mistakes… well, we have to pay for mistakes,” added Pión.
This is the first conviction of both public figures, who may resort to appeals.
The councilwoman who traveled in a car
where they hid a kilo of cocaine
On January 21, a judge ordered house arrest for the president of the Cartagena Council, Gloria Estrada, captured when she was found in a van in which a kilo of cocaine, a firearm and 7,950,000 pesos were being transported.
The measure will be maintained while the trial for the crimes of manufacture and possession of narcotics is carried out. According to the judge, the house arrest is given because Estrada has “the right to the presumption of his innocence, while a trial proves otherwise, especially the condition of chance mentioned by his defenders.”
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The president of the Cartagena Council, who belongs to the Liberal Party, was captured at a police checkpoint in the Manga neighborhood, when she was on her way home for lunch.
According to the investigations, the lobbyist would be at the service of criminal gangs, but she has said that the vehicle is not hers and “that she did not know that substance was going there. How could I see that this substance was under the driver’s seat?
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