174 pensions were allegedly illegally granted with back pay, amounting to $5.100 billion pesos.
They charged between 10 and 100 million pesos for carrying out the illegal processes. They charged people according to the pension that was going to be granted.
11 people who were contractors in Colpensiones* were arrested by Dijin judicial police under the coordination of a prosecutor belonging to the unit Estructura de Apoyo – Sectional Office in Bogotá for allegedly being part of a criminal structure engaged in illegally modifying and granting old age pensions.
As a matter of fact, the complaint was filed by the representative of Administradora Colombiana de Pensiones (Colpensiones) in June 2014, in which the Office of the Attorney General was informed about irregular practices detected when pensions were granted. According to that, information systems were manipulated to create, modify and falsify registries of affiliated and unaffiliated people who did not meet all the legal requirements.
*Agency in charge of administering the Colombian pension system