Due to expiration date, a request for provisional release (parole) was denied to six individuals involved in embezzlement to DIAN (Colombia\u2019s tax and customs authority) by the 8 Criminal Municipal Court in Bogota, acting as Supervisory Court. Due process has been respected and sufficient legal guarantees have been provided to the parties, said the Court.<\/p>\n
The defense counsel of Luz Adriana Matamba Sep\u00falveda, Katerine Cano, Yazm\u00edn Viviana Silva, Andrea Botina Montero, Fernando Quiceno Cruz and Erwin Enrique Mart\u00ednez submitted such request affirming that 360 days were surpassed without resolving their legal status and therefore the time to be granted the provisional release has already exceeded.<\/p>\n
However, prosecutor\u2019s office refuted this petition and said that delays were defense\u2019s liability because he\/she had frequently requested stays in order to study a large number of evidence material against the accused.<\/p>\n
In a number of judgments of the Supreme Court and the Superior Court of Bogota, it has expressed that time is not the only reason to grant this benefit, but objective and subjective factors such as offences complexity, number of prosecuted persons, authorities and parties\u2019 behavior in the legal procedure must be considered. Also the accusing body denoted.<\/p>\n
Defendants are accused for conspiracy to commit crimes, assets laundering, illicit enrichment, embezzlement, fictitious export, procedural fraud and\u00a0ideological forgery of a public document.<\/p>\n
Last December 17,\u00a0 the provisional release (parole) was denied due to expiration date by the 47 Criminal Municipal Judge in Bogota, acting as Supervisory Judge to M\u00edriam Teresa Pe\u00f1a Palacios, Antonio Ram\u00f3n Angulo Hern\u00e1ndez and Ra\u00fal Vargas who are involved in the same legal action which is investigating who are the responsible for the Dian embezzlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due to expiration date, a request for provisional release (parole) was denied to six individuals involved in embezzlement to DIAN (Colombia\u2019s tax and customs authority) by the 8 Criminal Municipal Court in Bogota, acting as Supervisory Court. Due process has been respected and sufficient legal guarantees have been provided to the parties, said the Court. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31155,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions\/31155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}