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An investigation that began in October 2019 in the Police station of the commune 16, of Belen, in the west of Medellin
, allowed to expose 22 soldiers who were receiving money from criminal gangs to omit their functions.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the same Police managed to infiltrate two uniformed men into the alleged corruption network.
The two undercover members recorded for eleven months the way in which the 22 of their companions received alleged bribes, they sold classified information and carried out extrajudicial proceedings.
Noticias Caracol obtained some of the recordings of these illegal events.
In one of them, it is seen when a uniformed man receives a package with the alleged payment of an extortion in a supposed drug sales plaza in the Antioquia neighborhood.
According to the investigation of the National Directorate of Prosecutors against Organized Crime, among the uniformed men there was an agreement to execute false procedures in exchange for not capturing those responsible, cthey produced vaccines; the fraudulent collections amounted to 100 million pesos.
“That was becoming a round business, capture me and I let you go, but I give you so much, so the captures were becoming part of that business, similar to that of the rewards carousel,” said Luis Fernando Quijano, urban conflict analyst.
According to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, the uniformed men belonged to an alternate list of at least seven criminal groups from the Antioquia neighborhood and the Santa fe neighborhood, in communes 15 and 16 of the capital of Antioquia.
Together they collected about 30 million pesos a month to pay the police. Another recording shows the alleged payment of one of the aliases linked to the investigation to the officials.
“This is where the investigation against a criminal organization is born that in this sector of the city is carrying out drug trafficking and within that same investigation they show that some members of the institution omit their functions and allow these people to carry out the commercialization,” he said about the operation was General Eliécer Camacho, then commander of the Metropolitan Police of Valle de Aburrá and now appointed commander of Regional 6 of the Police.
Among the evidence presented to the guarantee judge are videos in which after making false raids, the uniformed men, apparently, kept the seized drugs or weapons to sell them.
Other images show the policemen counting money, supposedly received, in exchange for not fulfilling their duties in those sectors. None of the 22 defendants accepted charges.
“It is a decision that is too guaranteeing, adjusted to the law on the part of the judge, but it also does not imply that because these people are in detention, whether intramural or home, they are already held guilty,” said Yeison Torres, defense attorney for some of those involved.
The preliminary hearings lasted 24 days, 16 uniformed men were sent to the Itagüí prison, another six sheltered with domiciliary measures. Another nine people, alleged members of criminal groups, were also charged.
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