The Office of the Attorney General dealt a hard blow to a network accused of altering information on drug seizures to appropriate the illicit substances and sell them to drug trafficking groups

Seven people, including five members of the National Police, were prosecuted and sent to a prison 

The Attorney General’s Office, together with the National Police and the US agency DEA, identified an illegal network in which official reports of drug seizures were altered to report smaller quantities, appropriate the illicit substances and subsequently sell them to drug trafficking groups.

In proceedings carried out in Riohacha (La Guajira), seven people who would be involved in the incident, were arrested. A prosecutor appointed to the Directorate specialized in the fight against Drug Trafficking charged them with trafficking, manufacturing or aggravated possession of narcotics, and aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime. Meanwhile, a judge imposed a prison sentence.

The people related to the decision are five members of the National Police, second lieutenants Iván Leonardo Góngora and Édinson Javier García Mercado, and patrolmen Jesús Albeiro Bohórquez Arévalo, Óscar Andrés Torres Mosos and Carlos Alberto Novoa Morales; and private individuals Eduardo Barrera Jiménez and Luis David Ustariz Hernández.

The investigation revealed that the officers would be in charge of modifying the reports and using vehicles to divert the narcotics, and deliver them to third parties who stored them in buildings and coordinate their shipment to countries in Central America and the United States.

During the process, several procedures were carried out in Maicao and Riohacha (La Guajira), in which 98 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 700 kilograms of marijuana, a firearm and electronic devices were seized.

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.