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On Tuesday morning, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that a new assurance measure was imposed on the retired General of the Police, Mauricio Santoyo, former security chief of the Uribe Government, for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering.
According to the accusing body, after evaluating the evidence gathered, a public prosecutor delegated to the Supreme Court of Justice defined the general’s legal situation, “and imposed a measure of deprivation of liberty in a prison facility.”
Through a statement, the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that “in the course of the investigations it was found that the ex-officer constituted an equity of $ 6,193’415,576 that, in part, would be the product of money that he would have received from the demobilized self-defense groups, while he was linked to the National Police between 1999 and 2009. “
(It may interest you: Detriment in police tax houses would be $ 5,364 million)
The decision was made based on the statements that have been made known through the Justice and Peace Law, which were verified, and thus it was established that “the drug trafficking organization known as ‘The Office’ and leaders of the then AUC, Supposedly, Santoyo Velasco was paid to release members of these structures and alert them to the movements and operations of the security forces. “
The Office of the Prosecutor indicates in the document that “for these illicit favors”, Santoyo would have received nearly 1.7 billion pesos.
The assets of the general (r), those of his family and companies entered the process of extinction of the domain.
In 2012, the retired officer presented himself to the DEA in Bogotá and was extradited. He became the first officer, of general rank, to respond to American justice. He returned as a deportee in April 2019.
(Also read: Office of the public prosecutor opens investigation against the director of Inpec)
In December of that same year a Court of Virginia (United States) sentenced him to 13 years in prison and a fine of $ 125,000 (about 230 million pesos) for having cooperated with paramilitary groups in Colombia.
Upon his return to the country, General (r) was not released, due to an investigation by the forced disappearance of Claudia Patricia Monsalve Pulgarín and Ángel José Quintero Mesa, members of the Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (Asfaddes).
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