Vistorio Rojas Banuvi, Luis Iver Martínez Córdoba and Jarinzo Bailarín Curupia were sentenced to 21 years in prison by a judge in Quibdó (Chocó), who found them responsible for the crime of aggravated manufacture, trafficking or illegal possession of firearms for the exclusive use of the Military Forces.
A prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Chocó proved that these people were arrested when they had in their possession a rifle with its magazine, 100 cartridges of 7.62 caliber, a 5.56 pistol with 28 cartridges, 2 communication radios and 4 cell phones, a GPS, a butt of shotgun, a rifle trigger, 5 hammocks and a vest.
The three men were arrested on May 5, 2020 in Bahía Solano (Chocó). The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that all of them belonged to the ELN illegal armed group
The court’s decision orders that they must serve their sentence in prison.
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.