The chief of staff for Colombian President Gustavo Petro and the country's ambassador in Venezuela will leave their posts, Petro said on Friday, as the prosecutor's office probes accusations of illegal phone intercepts of domestic staff.
Laura Sarabia, one of Petro's closest advisors, and ambassador Armando Benedetti, who was key to Petro's election and Sarabia's boss when Benedetti was a senator, have been entangled in a scandal involving missing money and her child's nanny.
Sarabia reported in January that some $4,000 had been taken from her apartment in northern Bogota, attorney general Francisco Barbosa said late on Thursday, and afterward her son's nanny was taken to the presidential palace, where she was given a polygraph test and questioned about the funds. The police wrongly intercepted phone calls by Meza and another woman who cleaned Sarabia's home, Barbosa's office said in a statement on Friday.
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