The businessman Carlos Mattos is again under the gaze of the authorities, after being extradited to Colombia last November for alleged judicial corruption in the notorious Hyundai case.
(Read: Carlos Mattos reached a preliminary agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office: this is what he will pay).
A public complaint from the investigative unit of Noticias Caracol showed Several departures of the businessman from La Picota prisonwhere he is being held while awaiting his sentence after reaching a pre-agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office.
The entity accuses him of having bribed court officials so that they favored him with decisions in the lawsuit for the representation of the Hyundai brand in Colombia. The news reported that Mattos not only left jail repeatedly, but that he did so in an Inpec truck, the institute in charge of guarding him in prison.
The investigation reported that the businessman would have left the prison to an office in the north of Bogotá. There he would have met several people. between her, her lawyer Ivan Cancino.
DISMISSALS
After the news was made known, the Casa de Nariño told El Tiempo that the director of Inpec, the General Mariano Botero Coywould have been fired. Along with him, the release of the director of La Picota prison would have been ordered.
sources of the Police They pointed out, for their part, that General Botero Coy will be called to qualify services, which means that he will leave the Police. In turn, they reported that the businessman will be transferred to the maximum security prison of Cómbita, in Boyacá.
In an interview with Blu Radio, General Botero assured that his departure from Inpec after the Mattos scandal it is a “political cost” and that he will answer for the responsibilities that are determined.
(What’s more: Businessman Carlos Mattos arrived in Colombia extradited by Spain)
Similarly, the general reported that Mattos has been out of prison six times this year alone, as he had five medical releases and one more due to a court order.
In November of last year Mattos had been extradited to Colombia from Spain, where for several years he had managed to evade justice in the country. After his extradition, an arrest measure had been ordered in prison that he, apparently, flagrantly violated.
BRIEFCASE
With information from EL TIEMPO*
