Bogotá (AFP) – Former leftist president Gustavo Petro is under investigation for a sex scandal during his presidency and when he was a congressman, said the president of the Supreme Court of Justice.

First modification: 11/09/2026 - 17:13

The case reached the high court after a complaint was made to the Prosecutor's Office by a woman who claims that she and about thirty other people received state contracts for maintaining a sexual relationship with Petro, accusations that the former president denies.

"There are facts that correspond to the time in which he was a congressman and there are facts that correspond to the time in which he was president," Judge Mauricio Lenis, president of the country's highest court, explained to local media on Saturday.

"Of all the reported facts, those that have criminal relevance and the responsibilities that would correspond will be made known," Lenis added when referring to the joint investigations with the prosecutor's office, in a case under confidentiality.

In recent days, former public contractor Deicy Jiménez shared a video in which she is seen with Petro after an alleged sexual encounter that went viral on networks, in the video they appear hugging and kissing passionately.

The former president said that he will answer before the judges for the allegations of corruption and assured in X that he never used "a State contract to obtain favors from anyone."

He assures that the complaints are part of a plan orchestrated by his political detractors, while he leads the opposition to the government of the right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella.

Petro was also a congressman in five terms between 1991 and 2022.

It is not the first time that the former president's behavior with women has been under scrutiny; in the past he called a group of journalists "mafia dolls."

Her daughters, Antonella and Sofía Petro, published a statement on Sunday in which they asked not to re-victimize the complainant.

"We trust that our father, as he has already stated, will appear before justice without delay," the text says.

Memes supporting Petro have gone viral on social networks with photos of the former president along with phrases like "let's do the politics of love" or "the right doesn't fuck (it has sex)."

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