The Public Prosecutor’s Office, through the Circuit Discharge Section of the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, in a hearing before the Third Criminal Court, obtained the sentence to 10 years in prison for Messrs. David Eduardo Helmut Murcia Guzmán and Ernesto Emilio Chong Coronado , for the crime against the economic order, is its modality of financial crimes, specifically for massive and habitual capture of economic resources from the public without competent authorization.
The investigation began informally on November 19, 2008, by the Department of Operations of the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Drug-Related Crimes, where it made known the fact by the journalistic deployment of national and international social media, pointing out David Helmut Murcia Guzmán and his company called DMG, which carried out activities related to money laundering in our country, as a result of the massive collection of funds from individuals, who was followed in the Republic of Colombia.
The elements of conviction provided gave evidence of a business activity dedicated to the commercial and habitual collection of money in exchange for receiving percentage benefits as dividends, whether consumer goods or a percentage interest in a certain period of time, without being authorized and regulated for this, using various corporations, which transferred income among themselves, constituted and directed by David Murcia, who benefited from the activity, managed by the company led by Ernesto Chong, under a professional services contract.
According to the report of the Judicial Investigation Directorate (Money Laundering Division) that appears in the file, the DMG and related companies, in the periods 2006-2008, massively and habitually captured financial resources without authorization by B/ .15,589,452.73 from 3,268 cardholders and 7,269 contracts, in the “pyramid” activity.
The DMG company was linked to irregular groups related to drug trafficking that operated in the Republic of Colombia; Attaching, news published on the Internet from November 16 to 20, 2008, accompanied by a query made to the Strategic Investigations Subdirectorate of the General Operational Directorate of Security of Colombia, where the full name of Murcia Guzmán was confirmed.
