SANTIAGO).- The judge of the Fifth Court of Instruction representative of the criminal file known as Operation Falcón was challenged by the lawyer of an accused.
The challenge to the magistrate Cirilo Salomón Sánchez by the lawyer José de los Santos Hiciano, representative of the accused Lenin Torres and of the corporate entity Lenín Auto Importoccurs after the arrest in Colombia of the leader of this criminal structure, Erick Randiel Mosquea Polanco.
In the Operation Falconthe authorities of the Public Ministrydismantled a criminal network is the result of work coordinated by the Santiago Prosecutor’s Office and the General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, and which has also had the support of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
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Two years after the Public Ministry presented the formal accusation against some 70 individuals and corporate entities, the incidents presented by the lawyers result in the same resources.
The involved in the structure of organized crime face charges of money laundering from drug trafficking, sponsorship of drug traffickingidentity theft, firearms trafficking, among other crimes that, disguised as legal commercial activities, mobilized billions of pesos.
The Public Ministry represented by prosecutors Yeny Liranzo, Reyna Jiménez and Pedro Martínezthe Santiago Prosecutor’s Office He rejected the challenge, believing it to be unfounded and untimely.
The Santiago Prosecutor’s Office, aware of the high criminal profile of the accused, analyzed thousands of documents and carried out multiple investigative proceduresto provide the judge with the necessary evidentiary sufficiency to obtain exemplary sentences.
