Colombia prosecutors to investigate President Petro's son

FILE PHOTO: Colombia's President Gustavo Petro attends the session "Leadership for Latin America" during the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office said on Friday it will begin an investigation into accusations that President Gustavo Petro's oldest son took money from drug traffickers in exchange for including them in his father's peace efforts.

Nicolas Petro, a lawmaker in Atlantico province, has said he has had nothing to do with the president's efforts to make peace or surrender deals with rebels and criminal gangs, and called the accusations "unfounded and harmful".