The Office of the Attorney General and National Police arrested 8 alleged members of a criminal network carrying out illegal mining activities in Triángulo de Telembí (Nariño). Arrest warrants against the above mentioned ringleaders have been issued. Assets for more than 5 billion pesos were seized as a result of proceedings.
The Office of the Attorney General and National Police, through the mounted police (Dirección de Carabineros), formed a technical and investigation team that, in a year and a half, identified a criminal organization which controlled the extraction of gold in the so-called Triángulo de Telembí (Nariño), created front companies to process mineral and designed several methods to hide and illegally transport ingots to Ecuador and Peru.