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Two people were sentenced to 19 years, two months and 11 days in prison for a millionaire fraud carried out through a pyramid that was promoted in exclusive sectors of Bogotá.
They are Dilia Margarita Báez Angarita and Jairo Enrique Sánchez Díaz, alleged legal representatives of the firms Fit Forex, Fit Colombia, Forex Investment Team, Fit International Group, to whom the Prosecutor’s Office accused the crimes of money laundering and illegal money raising.
The Seventh specialized criminal court denied them benefits such as the house for jail and the possibility of suspension of the sentence.
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According to the investigation, the events occurred between March 1, 2004 and February 3, 2009, a period during which Báez Angarita and Sánchez Díaz, “they captured
money belonging to 120 people, through the firm Fit Internacional Group Corp, owned by them “.
They offered investors a monthly return in the Forex market of between 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent in dollars. The minimum investment was $ 20,000 and the money was consigned to an account in New York.
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The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that without having the permits to trade in Forex, not even for
receive monies from the public by the National Futures Association- NFA. they managed to capture more than seven million dollars.
At the trial, the statements of witnesses were heard who indicated that they found out about the business when they attended a golf tournament that was held at a renowned club in the city. And that they later met with the condemned in the luxurious offices of their company in the north of Bogotá.
A single of the victims managed to deliver a million dollars and, although at the beginning he received returns, in January 2009 the versions began to circulate that he had given his money to a pyramid.
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After that alert, investors tried unsuccessfully to recover their resources.
Likewise, an accounting expert from the Prosecutor’s Office declared that the money of the 83 victims who were credited to the process was not invested “in a transaction
some in the Forex market “.
In the file appears the publicity that they offered to investors to get their attention. “Day by day, night by night, the Forex Investment Team traders are
exploring the market for the strongest currencies in the world (Forex), seeking with their knowledge, experience and the best tools, the right and safe time to trade and put their money to work “, they pointed out in publications made in the media.
The court questioned the actions of the two convicts: “The conduct of the defendants is malicious, since they were aware that the offer, individual or collective, made to the public, was intended to captivate, in large numbers, customers so that they could invest in the presumed purchase and sale of currencies, with an acceptable profit margin, and thus access their assets. Activity for which, they knew, they did not have the permission of the competent authority, not in vain, they never acquired it “.
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And he added that they “seriously, real and materially injured the legal good of the economic and social order.”
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The judge added: “The defendants, like every common person, know and
understand that illegally capturing money from the public, causes damage to the economic relations of the associates, and at the same time to principle and constitutional values, such as equal opportunities, work, general welfare, freedom of business, the legal acquisition of wealth, good faith and legitimate confidence “.
He added that the two defendants went to the establishment of luxurious offices, massive advertising media; likewise the use of the national and foreign financial system to raise money “to which is added the large number of people affected and the multimillion dollar sum of money raised.”
The judge also sentenced them to pay a fine of 29,057.41 minimum wages and determined arrest warrants are issued against him once the decision is final.
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