Bogotá (EFE).- Colombian President Gustavo Petro assured this Saturday that Police Lieutenant Colonel Óscar Dávila, allegedly involved in the case of illegal wiretapping of the nanny of a high-ranking government official, and who was found dead on Friday in Bogotá, he took his own life.
“Dávila, assigned to the security of the Presidency of the Republic, has died by suicide,” the president said on Twitter, adding that the officer took his own life after receiving “several calls from the press” and attending a proceeding from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office at the facilities of the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs (DIAN).
Dávila’s body appeared last night in a vehicle in the Teusaquillo neighborhood and the authorities are still investigating the causes of death.
The death of the senior official occurred at a time when a judicial inquiry was seeking to establish whether there were irregularities or abuse of power in the interrogation to which Marelbys Meza, a former babysitter at the service of Laura Sarabia, who until a week ago was submitted She was Petro’s chief of staff.
Meza was accused in January of stealing a briefcase with money from Sarabia’s house.
The illegal wiretapping scandal
The president, who recalled that Dávila’s job was to “secure the places” where the president was going to fulfill his agenda, pointed out that on the 13th floor of the DIAN, where the lieutenant colonel worked, “there was no type of device of interception”.
In the case of Meza, the Prosecutor’s Office will call for questioning and “in some cases all those responsible for these events will be called to charge” that involve “an alleged theft” and “illegal interceptions.”
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Police intervened Meza’s telephone number using an investigation against the Clan del Golfo, the main criminal gang in the country, as a cover.
Davila on the case
After Dávila’s death became known, local media revealed that the officer sent a letter to the Prosecutor’s Office in which he expressed his availability to be heard in an interview or interrogation to discuss the Meza case.
“All of the above, specifically, has its genesis in the complaints and publications presented by Semana magazine that deal with the case of the head of the Presidential Office, Laura Sarabia, in which they allegedly link the Headquarters for Presidential Protection,” says the letter.
However, lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río assured on his Twitter account that Lieutenant Colonel Dávila told him yesterday in a meeting that the Prosecutor’s Office was threatening him.