The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted Carlos Alexander Mosquera, alias Diecisiete or Córdoba; Leidy Tatiana Córdoba Rodríguez and Yohanny Sánchez Moreno, alias Zaranta; alleged members of the ‘Clan del Golfo’, who allegedly participated in the extortion of a gas station owner in Condoto (Chocó).
In this sense, a prosecutor charged him with aggravated criminal conspiracy with intent to commit homicide, extortion, and drug trafficking. He did not plead guilty to the charges.
According to the investigation, it was learned that the victim was intimidated by a group of people to pay an amount of money, in exchange for not attempting against his life.
It was determined that the first communication was in July 2022. A man allegedly came to his house and took him to a rural area of Condoto. In that place, armed people apparently demanded the payment of one million COP per month; in addition, he had to provide accommodation for some members of the organization.
In August 2022, they sent him a message again, where they asked him to close the gas station and in January 2023 they asked him for 30 million COP.
The evidence shows that Quinto Mosquera was in charge of finances and, together with Sánchez Moreno, they collected the resources from miners, transporters and merchants in Condoto, Novita, Medio San Juan and Itsmina. For his part, Córdoba Rodríguez was the person in charge of collecting the extortions.
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.