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The judge accepted the request made by the Prosecutor’s Office and ordered to arrest Eduardo Palomino at ‘house for jail’. According to the judge, the Prosecutor’s Office proved how the non-custodial measures were not enough to avoid a risk to society and the process itself.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office requested a house arrest, for the judge there were enough elements to indicate that he should go to a jail, as there is a risk of flight and that Palomino does not appear in the process. “It is very paradoxical that while the alleged victims are homeless, he goes to his residence in Barichara,” said the judge (Read: General (r) Palomino’s brother had already been imprisoned and sentenced).
Despite this paradox, the judge said, as the prosecutor in the case asked for a “house for a jail,” he must abide by what the accusing body requested, which was the arrest at his home.
“Here the Prosecutor’s Office is the head of the criminal action, and it was the measure requested by that body. That is why the judge cannot impose a more invasive measure that was not requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, “he said.
For the judge, the prosecutor argued why the facts for which Palomino is investigated are serious, and more considering that his criminal network it left people homeless, even in times of a pandemic.
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As he said, several requirements were met to impose the insurance measure: the danger to the community and the risk of repetition of the crimes. Also the possibility that Palomino does not appear in the process.
“Their freedom does represent a danger. The community cannot be sure when they leave their house and it turns out that when they return they find that the property they own is no longer safe, and that other people who claim to be tenants are living there, “the judge said.
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Ramón Eduardo Palomino was pointed out by the Prosecutor’s Office as the head of a network that supposedly is dedicated to scamming people in Boyacá and Bogotá with false real estate sales.
That is why he charged him on Tuesday for aggravated fraud, obtaining a false public document, use of a false document, conspiracy to commit a crime, procedural fraud, usurpation of property, which were accepted by Palomino.
The Prosecutor’s Office asked that he be given a house for prison so that Palomino face the process against you in your home in the south of Barichara, Santander.
According to the prosecutor Enrique Londoño, who is in charge of the investigation against Ramón Palomino, the 67-year-old man was part of the “Los Oportunistas” network, which would have about 14 members.
This group was supposedly in charge of scam by selling fictitious goods, goods that were not occupied by their owners, others that the criminal group obtained with irregular deeds, or houses and apartments whose owners had financial problems, so they gave the network powers to represent them to try to save them.
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In supporting the assurance measure, the Prosecutor’s Office said that in the illegal transactions made by the network, from 2011 to date, they used false documents to show a false possession of the properties. Thus, said the Prosecutor’s Office, one of those involved who reached the beginning of opportunity told how “it was an organized crime gang that had different roles and characteristics, and carried out actions to put properties in its name and sell them.”
The Prosecutor’s Office said that Palomino he was the “operational” part of the illegal network, and the head of the group, as it appears in various situations signing documents and directing scams. In addition, the accusing body pointed out that saying that he was the brother of the former director of the Police Rodolfo Palominio, “helped him both for the scam, and for the police to give him support that should not have been.”
The Prosecutor added: “I consider that his brothers did not know of the misuse that he makes of his degree of consanguinity, which affects them, but that this man does not respect. This man uses his name and surname to obtain benefits, such as police officers that by their obedience and by being educated within the Police, sometimes without asking the consequences of that obedience, they have stopped acting in the face of irregularities with real estate because this man told them that he was its owner, “said the Prosecutor.
This man uses his first and last name to obtain benefits
Thus, he said that the house arrest against him is necessary not only because there is a reasonable inference that he committed the conduct, but also that the process could not appear, Well, despite the fact that in the investigation he had been summoned five times by the Prosecutor’s Office, he never appeared. He pointed out that the detention should be domiciliary since it is the most advisable thing in this pandemic situation so as not to put his life at risk, due to a contagion in prison.
In one of those cases, the person who obtained that principle of opportunity told the Prosecutor’s Office that Palominio was the one who told him that he knew how to make that sale and that he had a person who could pass himself off as the owner of the property to make the transaction.
One of the scams occurred at the end of 2010 until February 2011, said the Prosecutor, when Palomino López asked about 400 million pesos to transfer ownership of a property.
For that fictitious transaction, a witness said, Palomino received more than 200 million pesos. The case was known by a complaint made by the deceived woman, who said how she met several people, including Ramón Eduardo Palomino, to whom she gave a power of attorney over her home to allegedly help her save from an embargo. But actually the Palomino network ended up selling it.
On May 17, 2012, the same property was transferred for sale, so a woman gives the network a sum of money, about 300 million pesos, and the delivery of another 110 million pesos was pending.
Another case is that of a woman who lost her property since Palomino López offered it to his neighbors, who were interested in the construction. “Palomino López offered it to him for sale, and he was going to the properties several times (…) he proceeded to point out that he already had the people who would lend themselves to sign and get a supposed private document to sell the property” to a citizen which, in turn, would transfer it to a third party.
A third case of irregular sale is the one that happened on March 6 of this year, when a citizen went to a notary’s office to supposedly regulate his possession of property in Bogotá. The property was sold for 295 million pesos and its deed was authorized by a notary in the capital of the country.
This, despite the fact that the true owners They claimed that they never gave any power to a third party to sell their property.
In another case, the prosecutor said, Palomino needed an eviction of a property that was occupied by street dwellers, house that was located in Barichara and that he wanted to sell with his network.
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To achieve this eviction, said the prosecutor when requesting the security measure, Palomino searched for police, telling them that he was the brother of former Police Director Rodolfo Palomino, A situation that for the police had weight due to the profile of the retired general. This situation was reported by a policeman who gave his testimony before the accusing entity.
“With the help of the policeman and a locksmith, he proceeds to violate the guards of the house and enter, where they leave the supposed caretakers, providing them with the number of police officers and the CAI, so that they can call them in case any action is required” , either street dwellers or the real owners of the home.
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