the former senator Eduardo Pulgar was transferred on Wednesday night March 23 at La Misericordia Clinic in Barranquilla, due to chest pain and low blood pressure. Hours before it became known that they will change him to another detention center and he will be taken to La Picota.
The Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) confirmed to EL COLOMBIANO that Pulgar had to be sent to the emergency room to assess his health at the clinic.
“From his place of detention, the procedure was advanced. At this moment it is awaiting medical opinion”, reported the institute about the former congressman convicted by the Supreme Court of Justice for offering 200 million pesos to a judge to favor a friend of his.
Shortly before he finished at the health center, a judge from the municipality of Soledad, Atlántico, denied a guardianship filed by his wife, Ana Josefina Ucrós, to prevent him from being taken from the Malambo battalion, where he is being held, to La Picota prison in Bogotá.