At the request of the Sectional Office of Prosecutor´s Offices in Bogotá, a supervisory judge (control de garantías) issued preventive detention orders with imprisonment for three alleged members of a criminal organization which offered interesting housing projects, auctions and their services to sell or buy properties through the use of front companies on real estate properties in Internet.
According to investigations conducted by the criminal Investigation Team (CTI), the frauds that were committed against more than 200 victims exceed the amount of 20 billion pesos. Among the victims, there are high rank Army officers and a famous journalist who lost a property that may be worth more than 800 million pesos.