Colombian Police Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Dávila, allegedly involved in the illegal wiretapping of Marelbys Meza, a former nanny working for Laura Sarabia, former Chief of Staff of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, has been found dead in Bogotá.
“We regret the death of Lieutenant Colonel Óscar DarÃo Dávila Torres. Our solidarity with his relatives in this difficult moment,” the director of the Colombian Police, Major General William Salamanca, wrote on Twitter.
The body of Dávila, who worked in the Presidency of the Republic, was found in a vehicle in the Teusaquillo neighborhood and the authorities are investigating the causes of death.
The death of the senior officer occurred at a time when a judicial inquiry seeks to establish whether there were irregularities or abuse of power in the interrogation to which Meza was subjected, indicated as the author of the theft of a briefcase with money from Sarabia’s house.
After Dávila’s death became known, local media reported that he sent a letter to the Prosecutor’s Office expressing 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, the lawyer Miguel Ãngel del RÃo, assured on his Twitter account that Lieutenant Colonel Dávila told him yesterday in a meeting that the Prosecutor’s Office was threatening him.
“Yesterday (Thursday) I met with Colonel Davila who sought me out to tell me that the Prosecutor’s Office was threatening him. They warned him that they would not stop ‘until blood was shed.’ Today he took his own life with his gun The Prosecutor’s Office is an infamous persecution,” said Del RÃo.
Last week, the Colombian Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, reported that the Police illegally intercepted the phone of Meza, who said that she was interrogated in the premises of the presidential palace as a suspect in the alleged theft of a briefcase with an indeterminate amount of money from home. from Sarabia.
In this case, 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, practices that were denounced this week and that is added to something that is grotesque in the country, which is that the ‘chuzadas'”, as illegal interceptions are known, “have returned to Colombia.
Meza was illegally intercepted because her telephone number was tapped by the Police using an investigation against the Clan del Golfo, the main criminal gang in the country, as a cover.
