Former Miss Colombia Valerie Dominguez said Friday her ex-boyfriend physically abused her and forced her to take part in a subsidy fraud for which she is on trial.
Appearing before a Bogota judge, Dominguez defense attorney showed emails and text messages between the former Miss Colombia and Juan Manuel Davila, to demonstrate that the beauty queen’s former husband-to-be had complete control over the actions of his then fiancee.
The lawyer presented a criminal complaint for physical abuse as evidence of Davila’s aggression towards Dominguez.
Dominguez is charged with falsifying a private document and embezzling government subsidies for allegedly having accepted $164 thousand agricultural grant meant for poor farmers, which instead ended up with economically and politically powerful families.