The Prosecutor’s Office also obtained a guilty verdict against the person responsible for the attempted murder of a peace signer in Putumayo.
The evidence presented by a prosecutor from the Unidad Especial de Investigación – UEI (Special Investigation Unit), allowed a judge to sentence Jorge Eliécer García Estupiñán to 34 years in prison for the crimes of forced disappearance and aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes.
The Prosecutor’s Office demonstrated that García Estupiñán, alleged member of the criminal structure Los de Vaca or Resistencias Unidas Campesinas (RUC), participated in the forced disappearance of five peace signers.
The facts took place on October 14, 2017 in Isupí, El Charco (Nariño). The victims were held prisoner by armed men who accused them of failing to comply with the orders given by this criminal network in the area.
The investigation determined that the peace signers were tied by the hands and taken to a river. Since then, their whereabouts are unknown.
Attempted murder of a peace signer
Ferney Andrés Cuaspur Chacua pleaded guilty, in a preliminary agreement, to attempted homicide (aggravated) and; manufacture, trafficking and possession of weapons, ammunition for restricted use, for the exclusive use of the armed forces or explosives.
According to the investigation, the convicted person participated in the attempted murder of the peace signer Leidy Lorena Pasu Ceromeca. The facts took place on November 16, 2023, in Mocoa (Putumayo).
The peace signer was attacked by the convicted man who shot him when he was at his home. The victim was taken to a medical center, where he was saved.
A specialized criminal judge in Mocoa approved the judicial agreement and sentenced him to 9 years and 1 month in prison. He was also disbarred from exercising public functions for the same period of the sentence.
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.