The two judicial officials were captured for three crimes related to acts of corruption.
Courtesy General Prosecutor of the Nation.
Special Agents of the Attorney General’s Office They captured Víctor Alfonso Forero Cortés, a former prosecutor’s official who fulfilled judicial police work; and to the research technician Juan Camilo López Linares, assigned to the central level, for allegedly committing illegal actions to favor Francisco Javier Martínez, aka ‘Pacho Malo’.
The capture was made in the middle of an operation deployed by the judicial police officers in the middle of proceedings carried out in Bogotá.
According to Forero Cortés investigations, he served as Head of the Judicial Police of the Delegated Unit for Territorial Security and López Linares also was part of this work team.
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The facts attributed to them correspond to alleged undue interferences to modify some versions that would involve aka ‘Pacho Malo’ in drug trafficking activities.
Before the evidence collected by the Judicial Police investigators The two captured will be presented to a guarantee control judge To legalize your arrests.
In addition, A prosecution attached to the specialized unit against corruption that coordinates this investigation will formulate charges against judicial officials as alleged authors in at least three crimes.
Based on the evidence in the possession of the Prosecutor’s Office, the detainees will be charged with the crimes of ideological falsehood in public document; concealment, alteration or destruction of probative material element and favor.
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Francisco Javier Martínez Ardila, who was also an official of the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office, He was sent to jail in the framework of an investigation against him for concert crimes to aggravated crime for smuggling and abusive access to a computer system.
The name of aka ‘Pacho Malo took judicial relevance in November last yearafter several press publications that outlined him as a key man, not only for smuggling businesses, but also as part of a complex drug trafficking network.
Source: Integrated information system
