The financial demand was allegedly made because they were committing irregular conduct with a contract related to subrogate pregnancy
A judge imposed a house arrest against the deputy superintendent of the National Police, Carlos Taborda Cuartas and patrolman Jorge Aurelio Campiño Llano, as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of bribery and breaking and entering by a public servant.
The facts took place on March 27, 2024, when the officers arrived at an apartment located at El Poblado neighborhood in Medellín (Antioquia) to attend to the case of a newborn, who had been brought into the property by a foreign couple.
The investigation carried out by a prosecutor assigned to the Unit for Crimes against Public Administration of the branch office in Medellín (Seccional Medellín), allowed to establish that the officers, apparently, entered the house without a court order and without permission from two French citizens who were living there.
It was revealed that upon finding the newborn, the officers, allegedly, asked the foreign citizens for the civil registry. However, they only showed the copy of a contract for surrogacy entered into with a Colombian woman.
According to the investigation, the defendants, apparently, demanded the victims 3 million COP, in exchange for not calling the Police of Childhood and Adolescence to take over the case, or the so-called Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF)* to take the baby. The foreign citizens gave part of the money, due to the intimidation.
Taborda Cuartas and Campiño Llano were arrested by the National Police. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
*Colombia’s Child Protective Services
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.