A knowledge judge of Bogota supported the evidence and elements presented by the Prosecutor’s Office and sentenced Carlos José Mattos Barrero to 5 years, 10 months and 27 days in prisonas responsible for the crime of bribery for giving or offering.
Also, the recognized employer must pay a fine equivalent to 131 legal monthly minimum wages in force, the control entity ordered a 108-month inability to exercise rights and public functions and the sentence must be served in jail.
It should be remembered, that the businessman was prosecuted for the payment of money to judicial officials to obtain decisions favorable to his companyduring the process he had already requested the annulment of part of the case and the retraction of the acceptance of the charges filed by the Prosecutor’s Office.
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“This new ruling is a response to a decision by the Superior Court of Bogotá that, after reviewing the initial sentence against Mattos Barrero, ordered to carry out the necessary verifications to establish if the defendant obtained an unjustified increase in assets as a result of the judicial determinations that favored him”assured in the document presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition, it was possible to demonstrate that Mattos, Through a third person, he sent 100 million pesos to a civil judge in Bogotá to favor his company that would allow Korean vehicles to be marketed in the country, even so, the Prosecutor’s Office did not evidence the crime of illicit enrichment.
The conviction of Mattos is of first instance and the legal resources proceed against it, that is, It is possible that the conviction may have a second instance in the Superior Court of Bogotá.
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It is noteworthy that During the legal process, Mattos has assured that he is having a fight with the journalist Gonzalo Guillén, since, according to the businessman, the journalist would have told lies and imperceptible things, which could compromise him with the Prosecutor’s Office.
