After approving the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a supervisory judge sent Eider Montenegro Muñoz to prison for being allegedly responsible for the murder of six people in the rural area of Ortega in a small town named Uribe in the municipality of El Tambo (Cauca) in facts that took place on August 21.
According to the Office of the Attorney General, Montenegro Muñoz, was the person who allegedly took the victims out of their permanent and work environments.
Members of the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) with the support of the Army and the National Police carried out the arrest in La Esmeralda neighborhood in the main city of Cauca; place where alias Maritza Serna Bicoche, alias “Maritza” was arrested; the first person arrested for these facts and demobilized from the ELN and later, linked to the residual group ‘Jaime Martínez’, with whom she allegedly planned the crime, and is currently deprived of liberty for the same facts.
In the preliminary hearings, a Special Prosecutor of the Branch Office in Cauca charged Montenegro Muñoz with aggravated criminal conspiracy, murder, aggravated kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, and forced displacement.
According to the judge´s decision, the second person allegedly involved in the criminal acts and who did not plead guilty to the charges, must serve a prison sentence.
The prison and health authorities were asked to review the medical condition of Montenegro Muñoz to verify that he is in good condition for being transferred to the place of detention.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.