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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Colombia\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s Office said Monday it will file corruption charges against the president of national oil company Ecopetrol that hearken back to his days as a campaign manager for President Gustavo Petro<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ecopetrol President Ricardo Roa managed the finances of Petro\u2019s 2022 presidential campaign and prosecutors say they have enough evidence to prove he helped the campaign to illegally exceed spending limits.<\/p>\n Roa, an engineer who has served as Ecopetrol\u2019s CEO since April 2023, will also be prosecuted for influence peddling, the Attorney General\u2019s office said Monday.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say Roa steered Ecopetrol contracts toward a company owned by a business owner who sold him a luxurious apartment in Bogota at a steep discount. Roa has denied the corruption charges, as well as accusations that the president\u2019s campaign exceeded spending limits.<\/p>\n In November, Colombia\u2019s National Electoral Council imposed a fine on Roa and two other campaign administrators for allegedly exceeding spending limits and funding the campaign with money from illegal sources.<\/p>\n Petro\u2019s presidential campaign came under fire in 2023, when a lawyer representing a government contractor with links to a paramilitary group said his client had donated thousands of dollars to the political campaign.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s son, Nicolas Petro, who is under investigation for money laundering, told prosecutors in 2023 that funds from a former drug trafficker were used in his father\u2019s campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n Petro has denied the charges against his campaign, and described them as an effort to undermine his government.<\/p>\n