The evidence collected by the Attorney General’s Office allowed a judge of to impose a prison sentence on three men who were allegedly involved in the extortion of a merchant in Arauca.
The defendants, who allegedly disguised themselves as members of an illegal armed group to carry out extortions, were identified as Arnde González Vieda, alias Vieda; José María Briñez Rivas, alias Aníbal and Delio Manuel Sánchez Ochoa, alias Delio. A prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Arauca charged them with aggravated extortion.
The Prosecutor’s Office found that in August 2022, the defendants had demanded money from a merchant through phone calls, in exchange for not attacking him and his family. The victim deposited 30 million COP into bank accounts.
These people were arrested in compliance with a court order in Valencia (Córdoba), La Dorada (Caldas) and La Plata (Huila), in a joint work between investigators from the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) of Arauca, the Police and the National Army.
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.