16 of the 18 members of the criminal organization were sent to jaill known as ‘Los de Rionegro’, dedicated to swindling and stealing money from clients who took false services in financial institutions.
The guarantee control judges who advanced the hearings of the insurance measure, dThey decided to send them to prison, given the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Two of those captured were given an insurance measure at their home.
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For the prosecutor, the physical evidence collected warns that the network was presumably headed by Carlos Felipe Corredor Rubio and Carlos Andrés Cárdenas Buenaventura, who accessed financial information from at least 11 bank clients.
Among those affected are real estate co-owners, a religious community, an EPS and several other companies with accounts in different banking entities.
The detainees had been using letterhead stationery, logos, stamps, false fingerprints and signatures; managing to steal, for two years, at least 3,190 million pesos that the victims had in savings and credit accounts located in Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Cundinamarca, Bolívar and Bogotá.
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According to the Prosecutor’s Office, criminals paid the so-called collectors, caretakers and recruiters between 3 and 10 percent of the total scammed; according to the work carried out within the organization.
The criminal network illegally accessed information on the victims, in telephone companies and in banking entities, impersonating citizens during calls made from banks to validate money movements.
Some of those suspected of being involved in this network of fraudsters were identified as Carlos Corredor Rubio, Carlos Cardenas Buenaventura, Luis Carlos Lovera, María Camila Corredor Vargas, José Garzón Malagón, Jorge Gómez and Luis Gabriel Guillen.
