The millionaire compensation that Vicky Dávila and RCN must pay

Retired Police Colonel Jorge Hilario Estupiñán has just won a legal pulse to Vicky Dávila and La FMAfter the Bogotá Court ruled in the second instance that there was damage to the good name of the uniformed man by the journalist and the media.

For the high court, Radio Cadena Nacional SAS (RCN) and Dávila incurred inaccuracies when presenting the alleged case of corruption of the commander in 2014 and ask that he be removed from office.

The investigation was opened on April 1, 2014, according to General Yesid Vásquez, inspector of the National Police, in an interview with Vicky Dávila of the FM. After the official explained in what phase the investigations for the revelations were going, the journalist Dávila claimed him:

General, we thank you in any case, but the recording is forceful, and it has already been in the hands of the Police for a month, there should already be a minimum decision to have this man separated from the position so that he does not make more hiring, which he is obviously wanting direct hiring in that department and that is corruption. There is no way around that.

However, justice declared Estupiñan criminally and disciplinary innocent, and for the Superior Court of Bogotá, there was pressure from the journalist when requesting the removal of the colonel from the National Police.

In the second instance ruling, it declared “civilly and jointly liable the defendants Radio Cadena Nacional SAS and Vicky Dávila in her capacity as director and journalist of the FM Radio newscast, for the transmission of the calendar news of May 6 and 14, 2014″.

Likewise, it ordered the dissemination of the content of this decision on the same channels where the complaint was made and the rectification of the information transmitted.

Million-dollar compensation to be paid by Dávila and RCN

The high court also ordered him to pay the journalist and the media, within the term of ten days following the notification of the order of obedience to what was resolved in the sentence, a millionaire sum in favor of the plaintiffs and as compensation for moral damages:

– Jorge Hilario Estupiñán Carvajal: $ 60,000,000

– Diana Carolina Estupiñán Vásquez: $ 35,000,000

– Helen Judith Vásquez Campos: $ 35,000,000

– Brayant Felipe Estupiñán Vásquez: $ 35,000,000

The court concluded that “It is clear that the damage is the product of the journalistic agent’s actions, and therefore he is responsible”.

For her part, journalist Vicky Dávila has not spoken out against the decision that condemns her to pay compensation. On his Twitter account, he shared his opinion column entitled ‘I am still firm’.