Colombian justice sentenced five years in prison Marlon Brito Bolívar, who confessed their participation in the kidnapping of the parents of Luis Díaz, Liverpool striker, at the hands of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in October 2023.
A Prosecutor’s Office indicated that Brito was “in charge of obtaining information and coordinating logistics to take the victims, through deception, to the point where they were retained by a group of armed men.”
Luis Manuel Díaz, Colombian international father, he was kidnapped with his wife, Cilenis Marulandain Barrancas, department of La Guajira, by armed men who were in motorcycle.
Five years in jail and fine
The Information of the Prosecutor’s Office detailed this Friday that the Criminal Judge of Knowledge of San Juan del Cesar (La Guajira) endorsed the judicial negotiation and “condemned the prosecuted for five years in prison for the crime of kidnapping.”
Additionally, it imposed a fine equivalent to 400 minimum legal monthly wages in force (about $ 135,000 today) and an disqualification for the exercise of public rights and functions for 60 months, added the prosecution’s information.
Thus the kidnapping was created
The investigation proved that the player’s parents went out to attend an alleged promise to support the candidacy of a relative who aspired to reach the Council of Barrancas. However, they were intercepted by armed men and taken to the Perijá mountain range.
The Prosecutor’s Office established that “Brito Bolívar obtained information on the routines of the victims and participated in the structuring of the deception used to take them to the point where they were kidnapped,” the information explained.
In this case He was already sentenced to four years and eight months in prison Yerdinson Bolívarwho confessed his participation.
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The player’s parents were kidnapped on October 28, although Marulanda was released hours later. ‘Mane’ Díaz, on the other hand, was delivered on November 9, 2023 to a Humanitarian Commission of the UN mission in Colombia and the Catholic Church in the foothills of the Serranía de Perijá, near Barrancas.
