{"id":44032,"date":"2025-05-15T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44032"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:03:21","slug":"a-person-who-allegedly-extorted-on-behalf-farc-dissidents-was-arrested-in-tolima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/05\/15\/a-person-who-allegedly-extorted-on-behalf-farc-dissidents-was-arrested-in-tolima\/","title":{"rendered":"A person who allegedly extorted on behalf FARC dissidents was arrested in Tolima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted Johan Smith Arango Narv\u00e1ez for his alleged responsibility in the commission of conspiracy to commit a crime and extortion, both aggravated offenses, and illegal possession of firearms; but he did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A prosecutor appointed to Gaula of branch office in Tolima (Seccional Tolima) revealed that Arango Narv\u00e1ez was apparently a member of Dar\u00edo Guti\u00e9rrez front of the Jorge Su\u00e1rez Brice\u00f1o Bloc of Farc&#8217;s dissidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 23, 2023, he allegedly forced a coffee merchant to hand over 6 million COP as a contribution to the illegal armed group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the investigation, this man was allegedly one of those responsible for holding the meetings in El Silencio neighborhood in Planadas (Tolima), in which victims were asked to pay up to 10,000,000 COP to avoid harming their lives and burning their vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A judge ordered him to serve a prison sentence. His arrest affects the chain that guaranteed the flow of money and communication between rural leaders and urban tax collectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><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><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted Johan Smith Arango Narv\u00e1ez for his alleged responsibility in the commission of conspiracy to commit a crime and extortion, both aggravated offenses, and illegal possession of firearms; but he did not plead guilty to the charges. A prosecutor appointed to Gaula of branch office in Tolima (Seccional Tolima) revealed that [&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-44032","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\/44032"}],"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=44032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44033,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44032\/revisions\/44033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}