The Office of the Attorney General issued a detention measure against retired General Mauricio Santoyo for alleged illicit gain and money laundering
After examining the evidence, a delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice defined the legal status of the retired general Mauricio Santoyo Velasco and issued a preventive detention measure with imprisonment against him for his alleged responsibility for the...
Office of the Attorney General appealed decision of non-custodial sentence granted to Ruby Corredor Ruiz for the alleged irregular sale of an apartment costing 1.6 billion pesos
It was established that the woman made herself available for committing an alleged money laundering since she did not have the financial solvency to purchase the property.
After the Judge (Juez de garantias) in Bogotá issued a non-custodial sentence for...
The illegal route of ‘Los Quilates’ (Carats)
A criminal network allegedly involved in trafficking large amounts of gold and jewelry was discovered. Eight (8) people were arrested, including a Colombian Migration officer. During the operation ‘Splendor’ properties worth 60 billion COP were also seized.
The Office of...
Prison for relatives and collaborators of two alleged drug traffickers that would be part of a money laundering network
The Office of the Attorney General managed to arrest and prosecute wives of the extradited alias Bambam and Gordo Guillermo, among other people that would have lent their names to hide money derived from a cocaine shipment sent to...
Judicial offensive against a money laundering method named ‘hormiga’
The Office of the Attorney General and National Police dismantled a criminal structure which used a new method to enter illegal assets through the airports of the country. Nine people were arrested.
Through the Special Directorate against Money Laundering, the...
Alleged tsar of textile smuggling was arrested
The Office of the Attorney General and Polfa-National Police arrested Salim Ricardo Yamhure Daccaret and one of his alleged partners, René Romero Sánchez. These two people allegedly created a fictitious scheme of importations and exportations in order to receive...
Criminal structure engaged in money laundering at the service of Ecuadorian capo was dismantled
The Office of the Attorney General and the National Police, with the support of the US agency DEA, arrested 24 people in Bogotá and four Departments of the country for managing illegal properties of drug trafficker alias Gerald.
As a...
Alleged members of a criminal organization involved in trafficking counterfeit dollars were arrested
A legal process has begun in regard to 7 people, 5 of them senior citizens, for counterfeiting domestic and foreign currency, smuggling counterfeit currency and aggravated criminal conspiracy.
The arrested people were Martín Veloza Cetina, Isabel Pretelt Cárdenas, Luis Fabio...
Office of the Attorney General revealed more than 240 electronic mails in which executives of money transfer companies are involved in alleged money laundering activities
Panama Papers case
The Office of the Attorney General revealed more than 240 electronic mails and statements of financial and accounting experts involving 5 executives and contractors of the so called Efectivo Ltda. and Circulante S.A. firms in six...