{"id":42800,"date":"2024-09-04T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=42800"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:13:35","slug":"two-men-were-sent-to-prison-for-extorting-on-behalf-of-an-illegal-armed-group-in-huila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/09\/04\/two-men-were-sent-to-prison-for-extorting-on-behalf-of-an-illegal-armed-group-in-huila\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men were sent to prison for extorting on behalf of an illegal armed group in Huila"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suspects allegedly committed crimes on behalf of the so-called Dar\u00edo Guti\u00e9rrez front of \u2018Jorge Su\u00e1rez Brice\u00f1o\u2019 Farc block.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the request of a specialized prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Huila, a judge imposed a prison sentence against Geferson Amaya Vargas and Justino Losada Cutiva, alias Tigre; for his alleged responsibility in the crime of aggravated extortion against a driver in the area of Ferri Tatacoa of Villavieja and Aipe (Huila) which took place between August 2023 and 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the investigation, the victim was contacted by phone by the head of finances of the organized armed group Dar\u00edo Guti\u00e9rrez block ‘Jorge Su\u00e1rez Brice\u00f1o’ of Farc who allegedly asked for the payment of fees of up to 12,000,000 COP to let him work in the sector and not consider him a military target.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judicial police work showed that on August 17, 2024, the businessman was contacted again by this criminal group to continue with the economic demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendants were arrested in flagrante delicto by Gaula of Army and the National Police, while they were waiting for the payment demanded in Villavieja (Huila). In addition, a motorcycle was seized from them that was apparently used to move to receive the money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only alias \u2018Tigre\u2019 pleaded guilty to the charges brought by the Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/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":"

The suspects allegedly committed crimes on behalf of the so-called Dar\u00edo Guti\u00e9rrez front of \u2018Jorge Su\u00e1rez Brice\u00f1o\u2019 Farc block. At the request of a specialized prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Huila, a judge imposed a prison sentence against Geferson Amaya Vargas and Justino Losada Cutiva, alias Tigre; for his alleged responsibility in the […]<\/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-42800","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\/42800"}],"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=42800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42802,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions\/42802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}