The National Unit Against Narcotics and Maritime Interdiction (Unaim) from the General Prosecutor’s Office, asked to reject the request of freedom submitted by the lawyer of the accountant Andrea Botina Montero processed for the embezzlement of DIAN by using false documents in order to get VAT refunds.
Botina Montero was prosecuted for the offenses of conspiracy to commit a crime, use of a false private document in consistent sequence of serial crime, use of a false public document in consistent sequence of serial crime, procedural fraud in consistent sequence of serial crime, illicit enrichment, fictitious export and import in a serial of similar crimes, bribery, embezzlement by appropriation and money laundering.
The General Prosecutor’s Office said, that her involvement in a criminal enterprise that had defined functions is clear.
“Due to the great variety of offences, her participation can not be dismembered according to what it is stipulated in a jurisprudence dated November 24th, 2011 from the Superior Court of Bogotá, which mentions that everyone must answer for everything, regardless of the minimum contribution in a commission of a crime”, said the Prosecutor in charge of the case.
According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, Botina Montera would have submitted to DIAN illegal purchase documents for exports and imports which did not exist, in order to get VAT refunds.