The candidate for the President of the Republic, Federico Gutiérrez, said on April 20, outside Corferias, that he wanted to alert the country to “a very serious situation that is happening and that adds to the intention of the other campaign in which they seek benefits for the corrupt and for the violent in exchange for votes.”
According to the right-wing candidate, Senator-elect Piedad Córdoba reportedly visited three extraditable prisoners in La Picota prison to offer non-extradition benefits. Among those mentioned was Francisco Javier Zuluaga Lindo, alias Gordo Lindo.
What Gutiérrez did not mention in his press conference is that Gordo Lindo - a paramilitary who infiltrated the Justice and Peace process during the Uribe government - had already been extradited in May 2008 along with 12 other people, as revealed by the newspaper Quesción Pública.
In a quick Google search you can find the news that on May 30, 2018, the paramilitary was detained by immigration officers from El Dorado International Airport.
Because the criminal has already been convicted and paid his debt to the justice of the United States, he could not be a beneficiary of the alleged non-extradition offers, as the candidate supported by different right-wing parties points out.
For her part, Piedad Córdoba told the media that if she had seen Gordo Lindo, it was by chance in prison.
In addition, Gordo Lindo told W Radio that he has not met with Piedad Córdoba at any time, let alone in exchange for votes, since he maintained that he does not like to get into politics.
The drug trafficker sent a communication to the station through his lawyer, Antonio Guette:
The few conversations he has had with Piedad Córdoba occurred because he shares a lawyer with the brother of politics, who is in La Picota.
She added that she asked him for an opinion about an American lawyer to lead her brother's defense, and that he told her about defender Todd Yolder.
“My only relationship with Dr. Córdoba was that fortunately or unfortunately for me, I share the same Colombian lawyer with Mr. Alvaro Córdoba who turned out to be Dr. Córdoba's brother,” he said in the statement.
Finally, she said: “She didn't come back here, since her brother was transferred to the High Security Pavilion for Extraditables (PAS), and as I understand it, she and her lawyers, including the one who advises me, are going to that building, very different from where I pay my sentence. As a matter of fact, I say goodbye.”
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