The joint work of the Sectional Office in Casanare, the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) and Gaula led to the arrest in flagrante delicto of Anderson Stívenson Vanegas Hernández. The defendant was arrested while he was receiving 15 million COP, allegedly, derived from an extortion in which the victim was the manager of a farm in the municipality of Maní.
Information in the Office of the Attorney General’s hands showed that in April, two men arrived at the farm to demand a large sum of money from the victim in exchange for not attacking him, his family or his property.
Vanegas Hernández, who pretended to be a member of the so-called Clan del Golfo, was arrested in a central area in Villavicencio (Meta).
The Office of the Attorney General charged him with attempted aggravated extortion and aggravated extortion. He did not plead guilty to the charges.
The judge imposed a prison sentence on the arrested man.
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.