{"id":38744,"date":"2020-05-12T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=38744"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:35:53","slug":"an-employee-of-a-contracted-firm-working-for-ecopetrol-was-sent-to-jail-for-alleged-stealing-of-hydrocarbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/05\/12\/an-employee-of-a-contracted-firm-working-for-ecopetrol-was-sent-to-jail-for-alleged-stealing-of-hydrocarbons\/","title":{"rendered":"An employee of  a contracted firm working for Ecopetrol was sent to jail for alleged stealing of hydrocarbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In a virtual hearing that took place before a supervisory judge*, the Office of the Attorney General brought before the court the citizen\u00a0Rumaldo V\u00e1squez G\u00f3mez, an\u00a0employee of\u00a0\u00a0a contracted firm working for Ecopetrol who would be part of a criminal organization\u00a0\u00a0accused of illegally extracting crude oil from oil pipeline Ca\u00f1o Lim\u00f3n- Cove\u00f1as.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The evidence collected in the investigation revealed that the defendant\u00a0\u00a0apparently participated in the criminal actions committed by the criminal group\u00a0<i>&#8216;Los de la Cuatro&#8217;<\/i>\u00a0and provided privileged information about sections in the oil transfer lines in which they could install illicit valves.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The crude obtained was allegedly diverted to clandestine oil pipelines located in the region of Catatumbo where they processed it manually to sell it as a precursor for processing cocaine hydrochloride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">*In this case,<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0this court also has an additional function which is called in Spanish &#8216;ambulante&#8217; which means a judge\/court who travels or moves throughout places\/cities when needed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a virtual hearing that took place before a supervisory judge*, the Office of the Attorney General brought before the court the citizen\u00a0Rumaldo V\u00e1squez G\u00f3mez, an\u00a0employee of\u00a0\u00a0a contracted firm working for Ecopetrol who would be part of a criminal organization\u00a0\u00a0accused of illegally extracting crude oil from oil pipeline Ca\u00f1o Lim\u00f3n- Cove\u00f1as. The evidence collected in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38744"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38745,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38744\/revisions\/38745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}