By requesting of the Attorney General Office, The 31 Municipal Penal Judge, acting as Supervisory Judge, by means of a remand in custody measure, affected ten alleged responsible for US Dollars, Pounds, Euros and Colombian Pesos counterfeit.
The prosecutor in charge of the case and assigned to the Special National Unit of offences against Intellectual Propriety and Telecommunications blamed defendants for offences of currency counterfeit, currency trafficking, and criminal association which were not accepted by defendants.
Also, during arrest procedures, authorities seized two printers, four molding plates, holography tapes, two guillotines, printing sheets for USD, counterfeit currency and mechanical mill for ink printing, among others consumables.
Eladio Hernández, alleged ringleader of the network, Jimmy and Johnny Hernández Chacón (Hernández’sons), Jorge Salamanca Espejo, Luis Obdulio Barreto, Juan Carlos Romero Maltex and Jermi Peña Chacón were imprisoned in The National Prison Modelo by order of the above mentioned Supervisory Judge.
Likewise, Luz Mery Murcia Gómez y María Amparo Jaramillo Sánchez, were imprisoned to Buen Pastor Prison. Leidy Johanna Hernández Chacón was granted house arrest.