{"id":42482,"date":"2024-07-15T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=42482"},"modified":"2024-07-18T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:17:02","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-prosecuted-two-former-members-of-the-national-police-and-another-eight-more-people-for-allegedly-laundering-24970-million-pesos-derived-from-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/07\/15\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-prosecuted-two-former-members-of-the-national-police-and-another-eight-more-people-for-allegedly-laundering-24970-million-pesos-derived-from-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General prosecuted two former members of the National Police and another eight more people for allegedly laundering 24,970 million pesos derived from drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 2019 and 2023, they allegedly legalized the assets through two companies which traded meat\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The investigations carried out by the Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with DIJIN-National Police, allowed the identification of a criminal network that would be involved in laundering 24,970 million COP, which are related to resources derived from transnational drug trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

In proceedings carried out in Bogot\u00e1, Cartagena (Bol\u00edvar), Baranoa (Atl\u00e1ntico) and Ibagu\u00e9 (Tolima), 11 of the alleged members of the illegal network were arrested, including two retired majors from the National Police, identified as Andr\u00e9s Felipe Osorio Osorio and Carlos Mario Montoya Castro; some of their relatives and acquaintances.<\/span><\/p>\n

The evidence shows that the officers allegedly established two companies that traded meat with the purpose of circulating illicit money. One of the companies, in just two years, reported banking transactions for 11,000 million COP, circulated 971 million in cash in money transport vehicles and reported 117 transactions for 33,000 dollars in the so-called <\/span>Banco de la Rep\u00fablica<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other arrested people were allegedly linked to the companies and were listed as owners of 7 lots, 2 houses, 12 apartments, 9 vehicles and luxury objects, without having the economic capacity or job stability to obtain these assets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to these events, a prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Money Laundering charged the 11 arrested people with aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes and money laundering. They did not plead guilty to the charges. The retired majors will continue to be deprived of their liberty in their place of residence, where they remain after being prosecuted for drug trafficking in August 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out 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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between 2019 and 2023, they allegedly legalized the assets through two companies which traded meat\u00a0 The investigations carried out by the Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with DIJIN-National Police, allowed the identification of a criminal network that would be involved in laundering 24,970 million COP, which are related to resources derived from transnational drug trafficking. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42482","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\/42482"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42484,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions\/42484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}