The people involved are Jesús Leonel Díaz Berrío, alias Purru and Jaider Luis Crizon Villa. Deviar Jesit Ortiz Velásquez, alleged financial leader of the Clan del Golfo, was also prosecuted.
At the request of a prosecutor of Gaula in Cartagena, judges imposed prison sentences in different processes against three men who were arrested in flagrante delicto by the National Police when they were apparently extorting in Bolívar.
During the hearings, the Office of the Attorney General charged the defendants with aggravated extortion with attempt. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
The people involved are Jesús Leonel Díaz Berrío, alias Purru; and Jaider Luis Crizon Villa, who allegedly demanded money from various merchants and residents of the El Bosque, El Zapatero and El Milagro neighborhoods of Cartagena.
The defendants, apparently, identified themselves as members of the criminal group Salsas Mexicanas Nueva Generación and demanded sums of up to 10 million COP from the victims.
The threats were made through text messages in which photographs of the commercial establishments, family members and residences of the victims were sent while claiming that they would be attacked if they did not comply with the financial demands. The defendants were arrested in El Bosque neighborhood.
For similar acts, Deviar Jesit Ortiz Velásquez, alleged financial leader of the Clan del Golfo, was prosecuted. The defendant also allegedly extorted shopkeepers, owners of fast food establishments and merchants in Cartagena, Turbaco and Bayunca (Bolívar). His arrest took place near Turbaco.
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.