Only a few documents, almost blank, are the ones that Nicolás Petro Burgos, current deputy of the Atlantic Assembly and son of President Gustavo Petro, has presented as a public declaration of assets and income that he has owned since 2020. The year in which he began to practice as a public official elected by popular vote.
(Read: The luxuries of Petro’s son, accused of receiving money from a ‘narco’).
At the moment, Petro Burgos is in the eye of public opinion and being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office due to the revelations of his ex-wife Day Vásquez, who accused him of receiving money from people with a criminal past, such as Samuel Santander Lopesierra, known as the Marlboro Man and Alfonso the ‘Turk’ Hilsaca, a controversial businessman with a process opened by concert for crime and homicide.
He was also pointed out ask for bureaucratic quotas and positions in high official entities such as the Ministry of the Interior and the Administrative Department of Social Prosperity, among others.
Along with this, on social networks they have asked him to publish his declaration of income and assets. Law 2313 of 2019, in its article 2, establishes that state officials must present their declaration.
(Also: Nicolás Petro says that his ‘money does not come from the mafia’).
This includes “public servants elected by popular vote” as obligated subjects to “publish and disclose the declaration of assets and income, the registry of conflicts of interest and the declaration of income and complementary taxes.”
Since Petro Burgos was elected by popular vote, he is obliged to present his income statement on the platforms designed for it. In fact, the regulations establish that this It is a requirement to take office and must be updated every year that you are a public official.
The EL TIEMPO Data Unit reviewed the publications of Nicolás Pietro about his assets. Two were found versions of the same document uploaded on July 31, 2020.
(In addition: Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against the son of President Petro).
It is noteworthy that the two documents do not contain any information on assets, income or income of any kind in the name of Petro Burgos. The first of them, which you can consult here, only contains her personal data, those of Dayssuris, such as her partner at that time and those of her parents, Katya Burgos and Gustavo Petro.
The other fields, income, assets, credits, among others, do not contain any information. These documents were uploaded during his first year of office as a deputy, but to date the provisions of the 2013 law have not been complied with.
RAFAEL QUINTERO CERON
WEATHER Data Unit
