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In the early hours of this Wednesday, agents of the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office and a group of elite units of the Gaula of the Police, concluded the Prolific operation, with which 70 criminals were captured, repeat offenders in cases of extortion and kidnapping.
At the same time, 31 assets valued at more than 21 billion pesos went into extinction, confirmed the outgoing director of the Police Gaula, General Fernando Murillo Orrego. As of today, the officer assumes the direction of the Judicial Police, Dijín.
The director of Gaula told EL TIEMPO that among the assets that entered the extinction of domain are 17 properties, valued at 20 billion pesos, on behalf of relatives of Jaime Eduardo Gómez Jaramillo – deceased – and his nephew Hernán Jaramillo Gallego, who participated in the so-called ‘Robo del Siglo’.
Between October 16 and 17, 1994, a group of men entered the headquarters of the Banco de la República located in Valledupar, Cesar. Without firing a single shot, the criminals stole $ 24 billion.
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In fact, within the investigation carried out at the time of the events, it is noted that Hernán Jaramillo Gallego was a partner of Jaime Bonilla Esquivel, who was a member of the Police. Jaramillo Gallego He was in charge of coordinating the entrance of the men to the Bank for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In this regard, General Murillo pointed out that based on the work articulated with the Attorney General’s Office, the location and identification of real estate that entered the domain forfeiture was achieved.
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Jaramillo Gallego currently enjoys the benefit of a house in jail – due to health problems and his advanced age – since he was convicted of the kidnapping in 2016 of Giovanny Andrés Hernández Olaya, manager of the company La Riviera at that time, for whom they asked US $ 1,600,000 for his release.
An investigator from the Police Gaula told this newspaper that the Jaramillos, after regaining their freedom due to the events of the Banco de la República, continued to commit crimes.
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“In 2006 they were captured for the crime of aggravated theft and qualified for having participated in the robbery of a Swiss watch shop in the north of Bogotá. From there they took merchandise valued at 150 million pesos, which was never recovered“, assured the researcher.
In 2003, Jaime Eduardo Jaramillo was captured for stealing checks at a SENA headquarters, “he was captured in flagrante delicto”, said the Gaula Police.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police Gaula, the monitoring of these networks of extortionists began 6 months ago
“The extinction of the domain is based on a timeline that dates back to 1994, which is when we have the first antecedent of them, to date. Thus, 17 real estate properties were identified, which were not owned by them but by their relatives. They never placed goods in your name“, assured the researcher.
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Similarly, the investigators were able to establish that Jaime Eduardo, after the kidnapping of the manager of La Rivera, made a fictitious sale of a winery to his wife and children, “the sale was for 2,300 million pesos. At that time the children were 18 or 20 years old and their economic capacity did not give much“.
Other results:
According to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police Gaula, the monitoring of these networks of extortionists began 6 months ago, through several simultaneous investigations.
The vast majority are repeat offenders and made threatening calls to the different unions and the community in general, in Bogotá and Medellín, and in a large part of the country’s departments.
Among the cases stands out, that several teachers from Ocaña in Norte de Santander “They began to receive messages via cell phone from subjects who identified themselves as members of the Epl, who made the demand of 120 million pesos, in exchange for not threatening their lives or their families“, says the Police in a statement.
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They point out that as days went by, the threats gave way to attacks against the residences of those affected. “The security cameras witness how one of the criminals arrived almost at midnight to one of the residences, firing several shots with a firearm towards the gates and windows, to later flee. The above, as a mechanism of intimidation and with the intention of creating anxiety in the teachers “.
The Gaula investigators managed to establish that they were not members of the Epl, but that they belonged to a common criminal gang, which was led by Leonardo Becerra Carvajalino, a 26-year-old man, with a history of illegal constraint, damage to someone else’s property. and qualified theft.
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