The Sectional Office in Casanare achieved the arrest and prosecution of four men who would be responsible for several extortions in the department and who are allegedly part of the organized armed group Clan del Golfo.
The investigations, judicial inspections and interceptions carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office allowed to established that Deiber Enrique Moreno Lara, Jesús Alberto Ruiz Rivas, Tirso Cadena Sánchez and Juan Martín Gutiérrez Cáceres, were allegedly extorting merchants, peasants and ranchers in the municipalities of Maní, Tauramena, Villanueva, Monterrey, Aguazul and Yopal.
After their arrest, the Prosecutor’s Office brought them before a judge of the municipality of Maní on June 24 and charged them with aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime for the purpose of extortion, aggravated extortion and illegal possession of weapons. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
Likewise, they must serve a sentence in prison.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
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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.