The currently investigated senator from Gustavo Petro’s coalition denied the information from the migration authorities of the Honduran nation and said that there were not 68 thousand, but ten a thousand less, and that she was going to declare them
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One of the main questions surrounding the issue is the real amount of currency that Córdoba was carrying, which was said to range between 62,000 and 68,000 dollars, but she assures that this is false and the figure is much less: 58,000 USD, which in Colombian pesos is almost 228 million, according to the congresswoman confirmed during a dialogue with the magazine Semana.
The INM of the neighboring country assures that Córdoba did not declare the money originating in the United States and that it was “provisionally detained,” while she argues, on the contrary, that she was “requested” for three hours while the bills were counted one by one.
Likewise, Piedad Córdoba pointed out that all the versions about this new controversial case are not “true” and said that they did not find that money in X-rays, but that she herself was going to pay the taxes to be able to bring it to Colombia. “They can’t arrest you for that, if you have money and declare it, they can’t arrest you”,he said.
Regarding the doubts about the origin of where she got that outlandish sum of money, the congresswoman told that portal that it was for some advice she provided to a businessman Colombian who lives in the Honduran city of Tegucigalpa named Mauricio Sánchez.
“We were working, we came from doing a job in Colombia, then I came here [Honduras] to work with them and I took the opportunity to hold other meetings, but nothing has happened there,” added the former presidential candidate.
< p class=”paragraph”> Moreover, Córdoba challenged his detractors to ask Sánchez if it is true that he paid him that money. “Anyone who wants can call Mauricio Sánchez and he himself tells them. This is not a one day job, it is a job that we have been doing. They owed me the money and they paid me here (Honduras)”, added the co-party of the Historical Pact, the coalition led by presidential candidate Gustavo Petro.
Furthermore, during that interview, the senator assured that she had no encounter with the government of Ximena Castro , the president of Honduras and assured that it is false that the money he brought with him is to finance Petro’s campaign. “This is a private matter and has nothing to do with the campaign or with the Historical Pact, it is my job and I live from consultancies”,Córdoba added, while clarifying that the advice provided to politicians and businessmen in the Central American country is for “investments” and “projects on logistics issues.”
The versions of the Petrista parliamentarian contradict what was announced tonight by the INM, which reported at around 7:00 p.m. that Piedad Córdoba “has been provisionally detained for investigation for the possession of approximately 68,000 US dollars that were not declared”, said the Honduran institution.
The money, supposedly, “belongs to a Colombian businessman (unidentified) who resides in the city of Tegucigalpa (capital of Honduras), who is being summoned by the Honduran State Prosecutor’s Office to give his statement and to follow the corresponding legal procedure,” the INM indicated. .
Now, the Honduran authorities will be in charge of determining what will be the sanction of the senator of the Historical Pact, which can be the same declaration of currencies, a fine or even an arrest in the foreign country.