At the request of a prosecutor in Valle del Cauca Section, a judge from Cartago imposed a prison sentence against four alleged members of a gang involved in the commission of extortion.
The defendants are Óscar Andrés Jilon Vásquez, Lina María Soto Ocampo, Aidee Giraldo Varela, and Sebastián Herrera Giraldo who are investigated by the Attorney General’s Office as allegedly responsible for the crimes of aggravated extortion and aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime for extortion.
The defendants are allegedly responsible for extorting five people with messages, via cell phone, with economic demands that if they refused to pay; they or their families could be attacked, as well as their assets.
The defendants were arrested by the National Police.
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The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out the 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.