{"id":43412,"date":"2024-12-09T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43412"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:40:14","slug":"eight-people-who-allegedly-extorted-merchants-in-la-galeria-de-tulua-were-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/12\/09\/eight-people-who-allegedly-extorted-merchants-in-la-galeria-de-tulua-were-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight people who allegedly extorted merchants in La Galer\u00eda de Tulu\u00e1 were prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evidence collected by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office allowed the prosecution of eight people allegedly responsible for extortion of merchants in a market in Tulu\u00e1 (Valle del Cauca).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people involved are:\u00a0 Kevin Andr\u00e9s Arboleda, Juan Guillermo Mart\u00ednez Vargas, Jeferson Stiven Acosta Buritic\u00e1, Juan Camilo Caicedo Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez, Valentina Grueso Trivi\u00f1o, Andr\u00e9s Mauricio Garc\u00eda \u00c1lvarez, Francisco Javier Qui\u00f1ones and Leidy Julieth N\u00fa\u00f1ez Mar\u00edn, who were charged with aggravated extortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evidence showed that the defendants were the alleged <\/span>holders of<span> bank accounts <\/span>in which money derived from extortions were deposited. They would be involved in more than 30 facts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Office of the Attorney General was able to establish that the intimidation of the victims was through video calls or text messages in the name of the criminal group, La Inmaculada. The demands were between 80 thousand and 2 million COP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These people were arrested during four home searches. Cell phones and a traumatic weapon were seized during the operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges, and they must serve house arrest according to the judge&#8217;s decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence collected by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office allowed the prosecution of eight people allegedly responsible for extortion of merchants in a market in Tulu\u00e1 (Valle del Cauca). The people involved are:\u00a0 Kevin Andr\u00e9s Arboleda, Juan Guillermo Mart\u00ednez Vargas, Jeferson Stiven Acosta Buritic\u00e1, Juan Camilo Caicedo Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez, Valentina Grueso Trivi\u00f1o, Andr\u00e9s Mauricio Garc\u00eda \u00c1lvarez, Francisco [&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-43412","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\/43412"}],"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=43412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43413,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43412\/revisions\/43413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}