A judge imposed a prison sentence against alleged members of ‘Clan del Golfo’: Banderleys López Mosquera, alias Bander, and Edwin de Jesús Conde Restrepo, allegedly responsible for participating in the murder of six people in the municipality of Apartadó (Antioquia).
The victims, all male, were murdered with a firearm between March 2, 2023 and February 20, 2024. They are: Juan Carlos Mosquera Atencio and César Emilio Palacios who were murdered on January 10, 2024 in Villa Hored neighborhood in the above mentioned municipality.
Conde Restrepo was allegedly in charge of identifying the people who were going to be murdered by alias Bander.
The National Police arrested the defendants in the municipality of Apartadó.
The Prosecutor’s Office charged them with criminal conspiracy, homicide and manufacture, trafficking or illegal possession of firearms for personal defense, all aggravated. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
Carlos Alberto Guaitoto Alvarado, alleged ringleader of the criminal organization’s hitmen, and Juan Carlos Lugo Salgado were informed about these facts in prison. In the next few days they will be summoned to a hearing.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.