Gloria Milena Álvarez Quinchía provided accommodation to foreign citizens who were irregularly moving through the country to reach the border area with Panama and to head for the United States.
Due to the evidence obtained by the Attorney General’s Office, Gloria Milena Álvarez Quinchía, an employee of a hotel in Medellín (Antioquia), admitted through a preliminary agreement her participation in a migrant smuggling network and having provided accommodation to foreigners who were traveling irregularly through the country with the purpose of reaching the so-called Golfo de Urabá.
A specialized judge approved the agreement and sentenced the woman to four years and two months in prison for aggravated criminal conspiracy and migrant smuggling. Likewise, she has to pay a fine of 1,383 current legal minimum wages, and she was disbarred from exercising public functions for 50 months.
The investigation led by the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations showed that the now convicted woman provided accommodation to Cuban citizens on several occasions who were then taken by land to Capurganá (Chocó) and sent on speedboats from Panama to continue their trip to the United States.
Álvarez Quinchía had been arrested along with 10 other people in May 2022. At the time, she was charged, and was ordered to serve home confinement.
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.