“We can’t rest for a minute to combat the crime of extortion in Metropolitan Lima and the Shut up, and we must do it with a permanent presence, in close work with the population, we will not allow criminals that our citizens continue to be extorted,” he told The Republic the colonel Victor Revoredo, head of the Extortion Investigation Division, after disrupting a foreign criminal group.
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He explained that the new strategy put into practice aims to consolidate security, strengthening fight against extortion, a crime that gives no respite in the capital or in the constitutional province where they have registered an increase in 36% and 33%, respectively, compared to the previous year, as admitted by the Minister of the Interior himself, Vicente Tiburcio.
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Colonel Revoredo invited citizens to report these criminal acts. “Communicate, give us the opportunity to advise you, when you communicate you will have on your side the best qualified and prepared agents”, he assured.
This new police group is trained in the most advanced urban operations techniques which include intelligence, precision shooting, urban combat, as well as investigative techniques, negotiation, crisis situation management and it is expected to continue giving results.
“The party is over (to criminals). We go with everything. Day by day we are fighting these organized criminal groups and also the opportunists who call or send extortionate messages, generating a psychological impact and causing fear. We are working (investigating) a list of cell phone numbers used for extortion“, the officer assured this newspaper.
‘THE ELEGANT CHORRILLOS’
Precisely, last night Divinext agents captured members of the criminal gang in front of the BCP Los Viñedos agency, on Los Próceres Avenue, Surco. The Elegantes of Chorrillosmade up of foreign citizens and dedicated to extorting businessmen and merchants in the southern area of Lima.
It is about José Samuel Dorante Arroyoaka Samu, Marlenis Suhail Carmona Escalonaalias Aunt Marle, and another Venezuelan citizen who refused to identify herself to police personnel.
On Friday morning, a bakery businessman had appeared before that unit stating that he was a victim of extortion. He said that through videos sent through WhatsApp they requested the sum of 10 thousand soles, Otherwise they would attack his person and his pastry business.
The alleged perpetrator even recorded a video with a firearm pointing at the premises.
The injured party, out of fear, initially made a deposit of 500 soles. It was the beginning of field work carried out by the police, where several video surveillance cameras with which it was possible to identify the vehicle used to commit the extortion.
It’s about the Toyota BAV-490, which was located in front of the BCP Los Viñedos. After parking, a man got out with two women and went to an ATM to make a withdrawal. It was the money that the injured party had deposited into the account of José Dorante Arroyo.
To the detainees a pistol was seized the same one that was used to intimidate the businessman, BCP cards, as well as two cell phones. Another vehicle was found in the vehicle search mobile phone and an extortionate message. Thus they were captured in flagrante delicto.
PRISONERS FOR EXTORTION
At the national level, until the month of August, they are 1,390 inmates for extortion those in the 68 prisons in the country, of which 752 are as processed (with preventive detention, without a final conviction), says data analyst, Juan Carbajal.
Of the 752 prosecuted for extortion, there are 310 inmates who entered this year and 442 who were admitted in past years who have not yet been sentenced, according to the Inpe Penitentiary Registry Units.
