In an operation carried out by units of the National Police, apparently in association with the International Police, it was confirmed that he was captured this Monday morning. the lawyer and current secretary of the Government of Meta, Hernán Gómez Niño.
The capture occurred by order directly from the authorities in Bogotá where they would have received the indication judicial.
The judicial units arrived directly at his place of residence located in an exclusive place of Villavicencio, capital of Meta, where they made the capture effective.
The secretary of Juan Guillermo Zuluaga was captured and directed directly to the capital of the country, where the procedure of judicialization and legalization of the order, this Monday in the company of the lawyers who will defend him.
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The Meta Police warned that they did not participate in the operation to capture Gómez Niño this Monday morning, given which was ordered by the Judicial Police from Bogotá.
Until now, the crimes or charges for which who will be criminally prosecuted.
The former candidate for the governorship of Meta, Hernán Gómez Niño, recently spent 10 days in the United States, resolving personal issues and was barely week he returned to his duties as Secretary of the Government of Juan Guillermo Zuluaga.
Recently his name had sounded like a possible candidate for the Governor of Meta for the 2023 elections, however, he himself decided not to resign from his position as secretary and to continue accompanying the governor of Meta Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, who in the midst of controversy linked him to his cabinet after the departure of his other Secretary of Government Víctor Bravo, also investigated for criminal irregularities.
Hernán Gómez Niño is the brother of Samuel Niño, a well-known politician from Meta who has been reported missing since 2019 when it is said he was traveling in a small plane from Colombia through Central America, heading to Mexico.
