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Kurt Brum Ríos was promoted a few days ago to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Police while a trial for drug trafficking crimes in which he appears as a defendant was being held in Santa Cruz. From the General Command of the Police they explained to EL DEBER that the officer He obtained his new graduation after completing the diploma in Senior Management and General Staff Administration, an essential requirement in his career.
The officer was an anti-narcotics agent at the Viru Viru airport in 2014 and then led the Chimoré Joint Task Force (FTC). In April 2019 he fell into prison after appearing with Pedro Montenegro, a powerful Bolivian drug trafficker extradited to Brazil, in a photograph taken in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, in Colombia, all in the context of a carnival agape
Brum is prosecuted for trafficking in controlled substances and for more than three years he has been defending himself in freedom in an oral trial that has been taking place since the end of November before the sentencing court of the judges Jesús Egüez, Moisés Colque and Lucio Condori.
The officer obtained promotion at the mercy of the garrison order 075/2024 issued by the General Command of the Police. The event, in which other officers were promoted, It took place on November 21 in La Paz, according to the information collected by EL DEBER for this report.
In addition to academic and administrative skills, among the promotion requirements of Police officers, those in uniform They must not have a record or be being prosecuted for crimes that harm their career.
In fact, the oral trial against Brum and the rest of those involved is promoted by the Anti-narcotics Prosecutor’s Office that formalized the accusation for crimes associated with drug trafficking through a criminal network or organization, even with links to abroad.
The Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (FELCN) and the Prosecutor’s Office, during the investigation, established that in April 2019 a group of police officers He traveled without permission to Colombia along with Montenegro, who at that time was already being sought for extradition to Brazil.. In September of that year, this citizen was sent to the neighboring country where he was serving a 16-year sentence in a prison in San Pablo.
In addition to Montenegro and Brum, the Prosecutor’s Office accused several police officers, including Colonel Gonzalo Medina, former director of the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC), and Captain Fernando Moreira, as well as citizens Absner Justiniano Rodríguez, Carlos Alberto Quiroga, Mauricio Higa Rodríguez, Dorian Noel Gómez Moreno, Miguel José Saldaña and Darwin Vargas Vargas. The former member also appears in Montenegro’s network of contacts. of the Departmental Court of Justice Marvin Durán Viera.
The oral trial was activated on November 21 and all the accused attended, including Brum who testified. He said he was unaware that Montenegro had an arrest warrant and its process. In addition, he confirmed that Gonzalo Medina was not his friend and that he traveled to Colombia with his own resources, denying a report from the FELCN that indicated that this trip was financed by Pedro Montenegro.
Police chiefs discharged
While Brum continues his career, Colonel Medina and Captain Moreira were discharged. However, all three are being prosecuted in this process. which in the coming weeks will come to an end with the issuance of a ruling.
The police along with civilians gave their statements in hearings, according to El DEBER.
The trial is in the debate phase in the presence of all the accused, except Montenegro who remains detained in Brazil.
The Prosecutor’s Office presented a witness considered important who testified before the judges. The witness confirmed investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office and the FELCN that the accused are responsible.
Favored senior magistrates
The FELCN in its investigations concluded that the former president of the Constitutional Court Osvaldo Valencia and the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice Miguel Gonzalo Hurtado They hid the supreme resolution of arrest and extradition of Montenegro.
In addition, the FELCN recorded that Julio César Jiménez Caminas, a diligence officer, manipulated together with the magistrates to favor Montenegro. However, the Prosecutor’s Office removed them from the process.
