Without giving details, former Colombian ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti denounced threats from “very powerful people” amid the scandal.

(CNN Spanish) — Armando Benedetti, the former Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, asked the country’s attorney general’s office on Twitter on Wednesday to “take urgent measures” to protect him and his family after receiving threats.

“I have physical evidence of the threats we have received, both direct and indirect, from the most powerful.” The former official said without going into details.

The Colombian prosecutor’s office has not ruled on the matter and CNN is trying to get information from the company.

In Another message on the same social networkBenedetti said he was leaving the country to fulfill a “prior family commitment” and that “this trip has nothing to do with the threats my family and I have suffered”.

The former diplomat did not specify his destination, though he said he would return to Colombia next Tuesday.

The threats Benedetti denounced come days after they were published in the magazine week Some audio of him threatening to reveal details of the financing of the political campaign that brought President Gustavo Pedro to power.

With information from Fernando Ramos