The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of justice sentenced to 96 months in prison to Raúl Alberto Grajales Lemos and his accountant, Sonia Trejos Aguilar, for the crime of money-laundering.
Likewise, received a sentence of 84 months in prison, Gerardo Antonio Grajales Lemus and Maria Nancy Grajales Posso as co-authors of charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering.
The Money Laundering Unit of the Prosecutor showed before the Court that Raul Grajales Lemos assumed the Presidency of Grupo Grajales since 1999, when they began to manage the assets and capital from drug trafficking.
“On January 10, 2005, in Panama, in a RAID made in a ground of Lorena Henao de Montoya, widow of drug Trafficker Iván Urdinola, were found documents that prove the money laundering through fictitious credits” the Prosecutor in the case said.
Contracts established trading between Gerardo Antonio Grajales Hernández, on representation of Grupo Grajales, and Lorena Henao of 60 per cent of the company shares. That money had origin in drug trafficking.
In addition, the loan of three billion pesos to Lorena Henao Grajales family was being agreed.
For the Prosecutor, was the administration of moneys of the extinct Iván Urdinola drug trafficker product from illegal activities and was intended to give the appearance of legality through the companies of Grupo Grajales.