Colombian ex-foreign minister charged over nanny’s lie detector test
Prosecutors in Colombia have accused former foreign minister Laura Sarabia of abusing her power after she made her nanny take a lie detector test. The scandal erupted in 2023, when Colombian news weekly Semana reported that a woman Sarabia had employed to look after her son had been hooked up to a polygraph and questioned […] The post Colombian ex-foreign minister charged over nanny’s lie…
Colombian prosecutors have accused former foreign minister Laura Sarabia of abusing her power by having her nanny, Marelbys Meza, take a lie detector test over allegations of stealing cash from Sarabia's home. The controversy emerged in 2023 when Colombian news outlet Semana reported that Meza had been hooked up to a polygraph machine and questioned by police in a building near the presidential palace.
Sarabia, who served as President Gustavo Petro's chief of staff at the time, resigned from her position in June 2023 but was later appointed as Colombia's ambassador to the United Kingdom. She has denied any wrongdoing in her subsequent roles. Prosecutors allege that Sarabia improperly used state resources to investigate a matter unrelated to her official duties by ordering police to question Meza about the missing cash.
Meza, who denied the allegations during interviews after the incident, maintains her innocence to this day.
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