Sandra Ortiz, former presidential counseling for the regions, confessed to the Prosecutor’s Office that gave him 3,000 million pesos of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) to the then president of the Senate Iván Name, in October 2023. This with the objective of expediting the plenary in which Vladimir Fernández, former legal secretary of the presidency of the Presidency, The Constitutional Court.
The former official presented conversations that demonstrate a breakfast on October 13, 2023 at the Name office in Congress. Name, Ortiz, Fernández and Carlos Ramón González attended this meeting, the latter who at that time served as director of the DaPre. According to Ortiz, the delivery of 3,000 million pesos was made in two phases.
In an interview with, the lawyer Francisco Bernate said that Judge Fernández must pronounce on the matter.
“I believe that Dr. Vladimir Fernández would do well to give an explanation, be it a press conference, a statement, but I think it is important that he refers to these statements,” he said.
Bernate said that the possibilities that investigation for the clarification of these facts progress in the accusations commission are “very low.”
“Possibilities that the Accusations Commission, which is the scenario to do this, advance in the investigation are very low. I would not dare to say that none because it has already done so in the case of Leonidas Bustos, Gustavo Malo and Jorge Pretelt, but the decisions take a long time,” he said.
Meanwhile, lawyer Fabio Humar described Ortiz’s accusations as “very serious.”
“The accusations are very serious. I do not remember that before an affirmation of this size has been made about the election of a magistrate of the Constitutional Court. The election of a magistrate has a political weaver, of political compounds, of course, but Here we are talking about money, which puts things in a more serious contextheavy, ”he said.
Humar said that the magistrate should not depart from his position at the moment, in response to the accusations, because it is today “innocent”, however, he said that the official has to be “cautious.”
“That does not exempt him from being extremely cautious with the actions that he goes ahead and that does not exempt to the judicial control of the country so that all the investigations to which it would have taken place,” he said.
“Being in a high position is not synonymous with impunity. He will have to give an account of his actions and how he reached the Constitutional Court. If this happened, it is absolutely devastating for justice in Colombia,” he said.
