CTI of the Attorney-General seized in San Gil (Santander) forty thousand million false pesos in 50 thousand pesos bills.
The operation was performed by CTI members assigned to the National Unity of Prosecutor’s for Crimes against Intellectual Property and False Money featured in Bucaramanga and Medellin.
The counterfeit money was found in a house owned by family of san gil former Mayor, Orlando Rodriguez Villar, who was there sheltered by house arrest by facts that have nothing to do with this operation.
However, they were also caught in flagrante Wálter Núñez Méndez and Carlos Alberto Gómez Díaz, who were there in the House.
The director of the unit against intellectual property and telecommunications, Carlos Ricardo Gaitán Bazurto, explained that CTI in San Gil City raided a house in which seized the 40 thousand million pesos in bills of 50 thousand. Also some plates types. This research is about six months, he added.
Gaitan said that before this operation had been seized across the country 42 thousand million pesos in counterfeit Colombian currency, 2000 million in dollars and 896 million in Euros.
Orlando Rodriguez Villar was sentenced in May 2011 to four years in prison for the crime of holding contract without complying with requirements, so it was with house arrest.