{"id":44343,"date":"2025-09-17T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44343"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:37:45","slug":"two-men-who-would-be-involved-in-extorting-cattle-breeders-and-merchants-in-casanare-were-sent-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/09\/17\/two-men-who-would-be-involved-in-extorting-cattle-breeders-and-merchants-in-casanare-were-sent-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men who would be involved in extorting cattle breeders and merchants in Casanare were sent to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">At the request of the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, a judge ordered a prison sentence against Jaiber Stiven Ram\u00edrez Sandoval and Alfonso Duarte Dur\u00e1n, allegedly responsible for intimidating cattle breeders, merchants, and farmers in Casanare.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Casanare (Seccional Casanare)\u00a0charged them with extortion. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Officers of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), with support from Gaula- National Army, arrested Ram\u00edrez Sandoval and Duarte Dur\u00e1n in flagrante\u00a0in Muese de Paz area of Ariporo (Casanare), while they were receiving 20 million COP\u00a0from extortion.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to the investigation, the incident took place in the rural area of Paz de Ariporo, where the victims received intimidating phone calls and messages on social media demanding payment of sums ranging between 150 and 200 million COP in exchange for not harming their families or employees.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">During the arrest, two cell phones and a motorcycle were seized.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, a judge ordered a prison sentence against Jaiber Stiven Ram\u00edrez Sandoval and Alfonso Duarte Dur\u00e1n, allegedly responsible for intimidating cattle breeders, merchants, and farmers in Casanare.\u00a0 A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Casanare (Seccional Casanare)\u00a0charged them with extortion. The defendants did not plead guilty to [&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-44343","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\/44343"}],"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=44343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44344,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44343\/revisions\/44344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}