A supervisory judge (control de garantías) in Bogotá sentenced Carlos Andrés Prada Jiménez Mayor of Ricaurte (Cundinamarca) to house arrest for procedural fraud and forgery of a private document within the framework of an investigation concerning illegal obtaining of an empty lot in Ricaurte (Cundinamarca).
“He processed documents in which he passed himself off as a poor peasant receiving a salary between 2 and 3 million pesos in order to obtain from Incoder a 2.600 m2 lot, when he is actually a prosperous local mayor and his family has politic power in that region of the country”: stated Attorney General