They would be responsible for legalizing more than 25,000 million COP through front companies involved in coal exploitation

At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge in Bogotá imposed a prison sentence on Pablo Hernán Martínez, alias El Boyaco; Dixon Heraldo Tequía Gómez, alias El Gordo; and Jessica Manuela Rodríguez, the alleged main coordinators of a criminal network accused of legalizing resources derived from drug trafficking.

A prosecutor from the Special Directorate against Money Laundering charged them with conspiracy to commit money laundering, aggravated money laundering and illicit gain. They did not plead guilty to the charges.

These people allegedly became associates to create front companies involved in the exploitation of coal with low capital and without financial support, but the yields were high in short periods. They were also involved in the purchase of real state and personal property and in the investment with resources derived from the shipment of cocaine hydrochloride in aircraft from clandestine paths in Colombia and Venezuela destined for the United States and Central American countries for the so-called Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel and other criminal structures of transnational scope.

Preliminary calculations indicate that with these maneuvers they allegedly concealed and transported more than 25000 million pesos and caused instability in public safety in Costa Rica, Mexico, the United States and Brazil.

The information indicates that alias ‘El Boyaco’ was apparently in charge of creating front companies. Alias El Gordo would be one of the main financiers, and Jessica Manuela Rodríguez would be linked to cash flow.

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.