Fiscal agent Alicia Sapriza met this Thursday with agents of the Secret Service of the US Government, within the framework of international cooperation in an operation that led to the arrest of foreign citizens. They pretended to be members of the FARC to defraud.
The Deputy Prosecutor for Organized Crime, Alicia Sapriza, met this morning with a US Government Secret Service Delegation, based in Brasilia, in order to work together with international cooperation in investigations promoted by the Public Ministry.
The Public Ministry explained that the inter-institutional meeting was held within the framework of a Operation carried out by prosecutors Alicia Sapriza and Lorenzo Lezcano where 4 million false dollars were seized and 5 Colombian citizens and one Ecuadorian citizen were arrested and charged. for Fraud, Criminal Association and Production of Non-Authentic Currency.
The accused they would have defrauded victims of millions of dollars and pretended to be part of the Colombian FARC guerrilla to threaten. The prosecutors requested preventive detention measures.
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The United States agents highlighted the operation carried out by the Public Ministry and the number of counterfeit dollars seized.
BACKGROUND OF THE CASE
The defendants are Yohan Andrés Gutiérrez Castaño, Carlos Eduardo Valencia Rodriguez, Edgar Arturo Andrade Correo, John Deiver Sanchez Mendoza and Alexis Rafael Barrios.
The investigation indicates that the victim was looking for a loan to cover the operating expenses of his business and, given the refusal of a bank, resorted to the Financial System of lenders. ante isto, would have received a message by the whatsapp messaging service who would have identified himself as Gerardo Sarmiento and who supposedly dedicated himself to the financial assistance of companies.
He would have mentioned that they were already aware of his current situation and to prepare a business project, in order to be analyzed by them and to be approved for access to a loan, which was prepared by the victim and sent by WhatsApp.
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Then the victim would have received a message from a WhatsApp number, who would have introduced himself as Esperanza Ramirez, alleged secretary of the finance chief of the alleged company, who would have set a meeting for him.
Upon arrival at the agreed place, the victim would have met three people with face masks and dark glasses, who arrived aboard a vehicle and put the victim in the vehicle. Upon reaching another site, he would have been received by a dark-skinned person, who identified himself as ‘“Commander Ronaldo” who offered him a loan of 500,000 dollars, but in exchange he had to make a delivery of 36,000 dollars, supposedly to cover guarantee expenses.
The victim collected the requested money, but those now detained asked him for about 10,000 dollars more. Upon giving them the money, she never heard from them again.
