- The woman was notified at the prison where she is deprived of her liberty for another criminal act.
- The defendant would be part of an illegal network involved in deceiving citizens through false service. She committed these actions in Boyacá.
The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted Denis Stefanía Pérez Sánchez for alleged responsibility in extortions from a prison located in the main city of the country.
The woman would be a member of an illegal structure involved in deceiving citizens in Boyacá whom she contacted to offer services that she never provided, but she asked for payments of money in exchange for not attacking the victims.
The most recent case was reported on February 4 in Sotaquirá (Boyacá) where a man was contacted by phone in order to offer a transportation service for a person from the rural area La Leonera.
During the journey, the victim received another call from an alleged member of a guerrilla who told him that he had entered a prohibited territory and therefore he asked a payment of a millionaire amount in exchange for no attempting against his life. The money had to be sent through an application in the name of Denis Stefanía Pérez Sánchez.
The woman is currently in a prison facility serving a sentence for another crime. The Prosecutor’s Office charged her with extortion.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out 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.