The Office of the Attorney General and Migration authorities in Colombia have evidence that Óscar Mauricio Uribe Pinilla issued letters certifying the status of high-performance athletes to people who did not meet that condition.
During hearings carried out in the so-called Complejo Judicial de Paloquemao a prosecutor from the Special Directorate against Criminal Organizations charged Óscar Mauricio Uribe Pinilla, former president of the Santander Triathlon League, with smuggling of migrants (alleged responsible).
The prosecutor hearing the case revealed that Uribe Pinilla would have created a false model of consultancy to process United States visas, in which the profiles of the applicants were allegedly modified with false information about their socioeconomic, labor and family status.
Apparently, he took advantage of his status of manager and gave his ‘clients’ certifications from the Triathlon League or the Institute of Sports in Santander (Instituto de Deportes de Santander) in order to impersonate them as high-performance athletes or employees of these entities in positions such as doctors, physiotherapists, massage therapists, logistics staff, among others. In this way, they increased the probability of obtaining the entry permit into the United States before the Embassy.