{"id":43335,"date":"2024-11-26T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43335"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:54:45","slug":"the-attorney-generals-office-prosecuted-those-allegedly-responsible-for-the-extortion-of-a-merchant-in-arauca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/11\/26\/the-attorney-generals-office-prosecuted-those-allegedly-responsible-for-the-extortion-of-a-merchant-in-arauca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted those allegedly responsible for the extortion of a merchant in Arauca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evidence collected by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office allowed a judge of to impose a prison sentence on three men who were allegedly involved in the extortion of a merchant in Arauca.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants, who allegedly disguised themselves as members of an illegal armed group to carry out extortions, were identified as Arnde Gonz\u00e1lez Vieda, alias Vieda; Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Bri\u00f1ez Rivas, alias An\u00edbal and Delio Manuel S\u00e1nchez Ochoa, alias Delio. A prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Arauca charged them with aggravated extortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office found that in August 2022, the defendants had demanded money from a merchant through phone calls, in exchange for not attacking him and his family. The victim deposited 30 million COP into bank accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These people were arrested in compliance with a court order in Valencia (C\u00f3rdoba), La Dorada (Caldas) and La Plata (Huila), in a joint work between investigators from the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) of Arauca, the Police and the National Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The 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><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence collected by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office allowed a judge of to impose a prison sentence on three men who were allegedly involved in the extortion of a merchant in Arauca. The defendants, who allegedly disguised themselves as members of an illegal armed group to carry out extortions, were identified as Arnde Gonz\u00e1lez Vieda, [&hellip;]<\/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-43335","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\/43335"}],"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=43335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43336,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43335\/revisions\/43336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}