Colombian Woman Publishes Video as Evidence in Petro Sex-for-Contracts Allegation

Deicy Jiménez, a 27-year-old woman from Sevilla in Valle del Cauca, published a video on social media on Tuesday, November 4, saying it is proof that she is telling the truth about her relationship with former President Gustavo Petro. In the post she asked justice authorities and the government not to allow anything to happen to her family or to her, and stated that if anything happens she holds Petro responsible.

Jiménez alleges that sexual favors were paid for with at least five state contracts during Petro’s previous four-year term. She says she met Petro in 2019, when he was a senator, through an adult website, and later moved to Bogotá to work under service contracts with public entities. She also claims there is a network of between 30 and 40 women in a similar situation.

“If anything happens to us, I hold Petro responsible.”

The scandal broke on October 25 when Jiménez gave an interview to Semana magazine. She appeared before the Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice on October 29 in a session lasting nearly four hours and, according to her defense, ratified each of her allegations. She also handed over her cell phone to the Judicial Police because, she says, it contains chats, photos, and videos that would support her testimony.

The video, whose recording date is unknown, shows Jiménez and Petro in a room. Petro appears at first wearing a gray buttoned shirt and later puts on a jacket, saying he has to exercise. Jiménez then says something must be inserted, and replies that otherwise the tip would be damaged. Both leave the frame and reappear seconds later, when Petro takes her by the hair and kisses her on what appears to be the mouth.

Petro denied in a letter after the Semana interview that he ever paid for a sexual favor, writing that he would vomit on himself if he ever did something similar. He did not mention Jiménez by name and described the matter as a political persecution aimed at constantly investigating his intimate and sexual life.

Jiménez’s lawyer, Andrés Felipe Caballero, resigned from her defense citing personal security reasons, and her hearing before the Prosecutor’s Office was postponed as a result. A hearing before the Prosecutor’s Office remains pending.