A police officer was sentenced to eight years in prison for the theft of $160 million

“According to the investigation, carried out under the coordination of a prosecutor from the Crimes against Public Administration Unit, on December 6, 2018, Pérez Guzmán misappropriated 160 million pesos, that had been seized hours before, during a police procedure,” indicated the prosecutor in the case.

After endorsing the raid on uniformed charges, A knowledgeable judge convicted him of the crime of embezzlement by appropriation.

According to the investigation, carried out under the coordination of a prosecutor from the Crimes against Public Administration Unit, On December 6, 2018, police officer Pérez Guzmán misappropriated said money.

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At the time of the robbery, Pérez Guzmán took advantage of the fact that the money was left in provisional custody, because he served as a patrolman assigned to the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI) of the Center of Medellín.

During the charging hearing, the uniformed He accepted his responsibility in the theft of the money, before the oral trial began.

However, the place of confinement of patrolman Pérez Guzmán remains to be defined, although it is not ruled out that he was interned in the Jail and Penitentiary Complex with High and Medium Security of Medellín.