{"id":39618,"date":"2021-01-27T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39618"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:30:44","slug":"people-allegedly-responsible-for-multimillionaire-cybertheft-were-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2021\/01\/27\/people-allegedly-responsible-for-multimillionaire-cybertheft-were-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"People allegedly responsible for multimillionaire cybertheft were arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i><span lang=\"en-US\">Five people were arrested, including a vallenato singer for allegedly participating in illicit bank transfers exceeding the $25 billion from bank accounts of two companies\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><span lang=\"en-US\">This important result was presented by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, during his visit in Boyac\u00e1, in which he reviewed the strategies against crime in that region.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The strategy defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to strengthen the institutional response to the criminal phenomena that occur in the regions is to evaluate and guide the investigative and judicial actions to fight crime in the territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In that sense, he visited Paipa (Boyac\u00e1), and in the company of his executive staff, assessed the results obtained in Boyac\u00e1 and Santander, and defined new activities to combat murders, local drug trafficking, theft and other illegal behaviors that affect this area of \u200b\u200bthe country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cIn Boyac\u00e1 we established how we will fight crime in Tunja, Duitama, Chiquinquir\u00e1, Sogamoso, and the entire area that borders the Department of Santander and the Department of Arauca. In the same way, we were able to evaluate in Santander all related to what has happened in Bucaramanga, Lebrija, Gir\u00f3n and Piedecuesta\u201d, stated the Attorney General.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">With the criteria established in this meeting, it is expected to obtain important results to offer tranquility and security to citizens of these two Departments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u><span lang=\"en-US\">Hard blow against cybercrime\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">As a result of a joint operation carried out by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office and Dijin- National Police, five people who had participated in the theft of more than $25 billion from the bank accounts of two companies engaged in real estate activities, were arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The judicial proceedings were carried out simultaneously in Bogot\u00e1, Cartagena, Valledupar and Ch\u00eda. Among the people arrested, there is singer (34 years old) from La Guajira.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The facts took place between September 14 and 15, 2017. Apparently, a group of cybercriminals using false documents fraudulently obtained\u00a0\u00a0the bank tokens of\u00a0\u00a0two companies and allegedly transferred the millionaire amount from the bank\u00b4s virtual web to 13 accounts, including those of the defendants. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">A prosecutor of the Special Directorate against Criminal Organizations brought charges against the five people arrested. They were charged with abusive access to a computer system, cybertheft, and use of a false document. A supervisory judge in Bogot\u00e1 declared arrests and search warrant that were conducted as legal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">People investigated are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Diana Laverde Ortiz.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Heverth Humberto Puentes Perdomo.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Alfonso Carrillo Solano.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Elvis Blanco Alfaro.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Carlos Alberto Dur\u00e1n Escorcia.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cWe are aware of the difficulties we are facing due to Covid &#8211; 19 in Colombia. The criminals are moving within the Colombian territory with tranquility, that is why the Office of the Attorney General and the Attorney General will not allow these movements with the aid of joint actions that we are carrying out, with people in all the territories\u201d, concluded the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span lang=\"en-US\">The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out the 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were arrested, including a vallenato singer for allegedly participating in illicit bank transfers exceeding the $25 billion from bank accounts of two companies\u00a0 This important result was presented by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, during his visit in Boyac\u00e1, in which he reviewed the strategies against crime in that region.\u00a0 The strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-attorney-general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618"}],"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=39618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39619,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618\/revisions\/39619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}