The sentenced man, apparently, paid 250 million pesos to arrive at a prison of his choice, and later receive house arrest and a work permit for being the head of the household.
The Attorney General’s Office presented before a guarantee control judge the former director of the La Picota prison in Bogotá, César Augusto Ceballos Giraldo; the lawyer Germán Eduardo Cifuentes Rodríguez; and the private investigator Jorge Efredy Monroy Ávila, as allegedly responsible for carrying out different maneuvers to benefit a person prosecuted for drug trafficking.
In March 2015, the Supreme Court of Justice sentenced a man caught in flagrante delicto with 300 kilograms of cocaine to 16 years in prison and ordered him to remain in the Villavicencio (Meta) prison.
Since then, the lawyer Cifuentes Rodríguez would have offered his services to contact officials who, in exchange for gifts, would facilitate the recognition of house arrest, sentence reductions and work permits, among other concepts that favored his client.
Initially, on July 31, 2015, the then director of La Picota prison apparently allowed the sentenced man to enter that prison illegally by simply showing up voluntarily, without an official transfer from INPEC, with a detention slip. false and in clear ignorance of what is established in the ruling.
Meanwhile, the investigator Monroy Ávila, allegedly, was in charge of collecting interviews, photographic material and documents to prove that the convicted person was in the care of the minor children due to the disappearance of his wife, something that did not correspond to the truth. In this way, he obtained from the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) the recognition of the condition of father head of household.
The test material indicates that for all the privileges obtained, the sentenced person paid 250 million pesos to the lawyer Cifuentes Rodríguez, who would have offered a part to several officials and individuals who intervened in multiple falsehoods and the manipulation of judicial distribution systems, among other anomalies detected.
