{"id":38820,"date":"2020-06-04T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=38820"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:14:11","slug":"accused-former-congressman-gonzalo-garcia-for-alleged-participation-in-irregular-actions-related-to-the-election-of-his-son-as-mayor-in-valle-de-san-juan-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/06\/04\/accused-former-congressman-gonzalo-garcia-for-alleged-participation-in-irregular-actions-related-to-the-election-of-his-son-as-mayor-in-valle-de-san-juan-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused former congressman Gonzalo Garc\u00eda for alleged participation in irregular actions related to the election of his son as Mayor in Valle de San Juan in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i><span lang=\"en-US\">Once his arrest is carried out, he will serve a detention measure with home imprisonment. The sentence was issued in a virtual hearing that took place on June 3.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General in Ibagu\u00e9 (Tolima) sentenced Gonzalo Garc\u00eda Angarita in absentia. He was congressman of the Department from 2006 to 2010 for criminal conspiracy and corruption of voters which were committed last year in the municipality of Valle de San Juan (Tolima).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span>The facts for which the defendant was sentenced to home detention, are related to electoral fraud and the purchase of votes that led to the arrest and sentence of his son Daniel Ricardo Garc\u00eda Castillo, who was elected as mayor of the aforementioned municipality from 2020 to 2023, and the former mayor of the same region, Juan H\u00e9ctor Orlando Padilla Barrag\u00e1n, last week.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">It is assumed that the former congressman participated in the irregularities committed by his son and Padilla Barrag\u00e1n, since it is worth noting that the investigators determined that the above mentioned people agreed to obtain votes at any cost in favor of Garc\u00eda Castillo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">For this purpose they gave all kinds of construction materials, water tanks, cash, in addition to promising the inhabitants of vulnerable areas a better quality of life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once his arrest is carried out, he will serve a detention measure with home imprisonment. The sentence was issued in a virtual hearing that took place on June 3. The Office of the Attorney General in Ibagu\u00e9 (Tolima) sentenced Gonzalo Garc\u00eda Angarita in absentia. He was congressman of the Department from 2006 to 2010 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bolsillos-de-cristal","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820"}],"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=38820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38821,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions\/38821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}