They threaten the lawyer of a man who revealed a corruption network in the Cali Prosecutor’s Office

After denouncing various officials of the Cali sectional Prosecutor’s Office, Juan David Rengifo has already begun to receive intimidation, this time against his defense attorney, Juan Carlos Suárez. Apparently the man has been sent messages warning him that defending Rengifo or ‘La R’, as his client is known, “is absurd due to the risks that this entailed.”

On March 26, a few blocks from his home, a motorcyclist approached him to warn him that he was not being tracked. “Leave the güevonada and withdraw from the case if you want your wife and your daughters“The man who, according to him, had been sent by” the gentleman, “Caracol Radio met.

After knowing the names of those involved in this case, the same witness was also threatened, for which he had to be transferred to a special cell in the capital. For now, an investigation is being launched to capture and prosecute the culprits.

On March 12, the Cali sectional prosecutor Jorge Iván Ríos was captured allegedly for having received a bribe of 100 million pesos and favoring alias ‘La R’ for the crimes of homicide and kidnapping. The person who would have paid the money was Rengifo’s lawyer, Héctor Alirio Rojas.

The case against the alleged murderer is for the death of Mauricio Guerrero Rivera, who was kidnapped by a police patrol, in a bakery in Jamundí, Valle del Cauca. The man appeared lifeless for five days: his body showed signs of torture and dismemberment.

Rengifo was captured after his face appeared on the security cameras of the bakery and, to receive legal benefits, the ex-policeman began to collaborate with the justice system.

According to El Espectador, in December 2019 it was expected that an arrest warrant would be issued against alias ‘La R’, but it was not given by the Cali Prosecutor’s Office because of this bribe that would have already been paid. The lawyer Rojas, the prosecutor Ríos and the lawyer Zulema Bonilla participated in this. Apparently the lawyer would have contacted Bonilla and since these two were very close to the coordinator of specialized prosecutors, they would have moved their files to avoid progress in the process against ‘La R’ since this section had its case.

In one of his statements, Rengifo said that the lawyer who was helping him with the process to avoid being issued an arrest warrant for his crimes and that ended in the alleged bribery of the prosecutor of the Cali section, Jorge Iván Ríos for 100 million euros. pesos, told him that if they could not solve it in Cali, they would do it from Bogotá and, According to ‘La R’, he contacted Diego Cadena who answered on the other side.

“I listen when they ask him how he is, what about his life, then Diego Cadena says ‘what have you heard about me over there?’ and (the lawyer) said ‘no, no, no, it’s for a favor of mine and of the Lord’ ”. Given this, the lawyer continues asking him if he still has ‘all powers’ and Cadena would have answered “yes, as with clenched teeth what you need“And they confirm to ‘La R’ that this is going to be resolved in some way, revealed a document known to the newscast.

According to Noticias Caracol, due to the events involved, there are three effective arrests, four officials charged, and almost 60% of sectional prosecutors who are under investigation.

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