Carlos Mattos intends to revive the negotiation with the Public Prosecutor's Office

On April 4, it became known that businessman Carlos Mattos seeks to revive the negotiations he is carrying out with the Attorney General's Office and intends that the corruption proceedings investigated by justice and which have him behind bars be terminated in advance.

According to El Tiempo, the prosecutor in the case, Álvaro Betancourt, received a statement in which Mattos rejects another document sent last Friday stating that he would initiate international actions against the investigating body if the pre-agreement was not negotiated further.

The text sent by the Víctor Mosquera law office assured that if the negotiation is not resumed, international legal action would be taken because they are allegedly violating the rights of the businessman.

Ómar Juan Carlos Suárez, Mattos's new lawyer, spoke to the newspaper and said that the statement was sent without consulting Mattos.

“The statement was issued inconsultantly. No authorization was requested from either Dr. Mattos or me, because I am his only lawyer (...) Dr. Mosquera was able to do it out of solidarity, but he was not authorized. And since December 2021, he finished his intervention and the provision of his services was resolved some time ago.”

On March 16, the Attorney General's Office withdrew the two pre-agreements it had signed with businessman Carlos Mattos. One of the appeals was overthrown by a judge of the Republic, that is, the prosecution will not file it again. The other pre-agreement was withdrawn by the Prosecutor's Office.

According to W Radio, the prosecutor assured that an agreement with Mattos will not be re-signed and that there will be no principle of opportunity. These conclusions lead to the understanding that the entrepreneur should go to trial.

The judge in charge of reviewing the pre-agreement between Carlos Mattos and the Prosecutor's Office concluded that the penalty against the businessman was not well evaluated. Although the document indicated that he would have to serve 56 months in prison, the specialist emphasizes that he must be older. Mattos is accused of having bribed judges of the Republic to be favored in representing the Hyundai brand in the country.

In January 2018, it was when the Attorney General's Office announced an investigation into alleged manipulation of the process sharing system. The prosecutor found that Mattos and his lawyer had agreed to pay Judge Reinaldo Huertas for approximately $2 billion pesos (more than $580,000 dollars) to rule in their favor.

It was last March that the first obstacle was presented after Judge 30 of Bogotá did not admit the pre-agreement signed between the Attorney General's Office and businessman Carlos Mattos Barrero. He considered that four and a half years of imprisonment was not enough, since aggravating circumstances were not being taken into account. In addition, it maintained that important aspects were not taken into account to ensure the effective reparation of victims, which in this case are the Judicial Branch and the Attorney-General's Office.

This pre-agreement indicated that Mattos, with the aim of reparating the victims for the damages caused, undertook to deliver the sum of 1,000,000 dollars, of which 500,000 will be sent to the Executive Directorate of Judicial Administration and the remainder to the Office of the Prosecutor.

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