Security cameras and lights off and financial requests were, apparently, some of the practices of officers, guards and contractors of the Institute of Pitalito Transit (Intrapitalito). The former director of the group, William Iván Rojas Giraldo, was part of the criminal network, “allowing vehicles to leave yards without requirements,” said a legal source.
Rafael Rodríguez C.
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Telephone comments and statements from victims revealed the corruption network that moved for months in the Institute of Pitalito Transit and Transport (Intrapitalito), and which, apparently, was the director at the time and was now the manager of Setp de Neiva, William Iván Rojas Giraldo.
And the criminal group had officers, traffic agents, processors and contractors who ‘moved’ freely in the movement group, which ended up being identified and denied by victims their irregular practices.
“The criminal group had been working for several months as an organization dedicated to illegal confinement for hate purposes…”, a legal source close to the investigation told LA NACIÓN.
He claimed that the investigations, carried out by the Technical Investigation Group (CTI) in coordination with the Military Gaul of the Ninth Brigade of the Army, revealed that the criminal group was led by Leonardo Vargas Torres, who was captured last Wednesday.
Along with him, the former director of Intrapitalito and today the manager of the Integrated Public Transport System of Neiva (Setp), William Iván Rojas Giraldo, was captured, as well as José Jamer Morales Vargas, Luisa Fernanda Calderón Lozada, Carlos Alonso Rodríguez Berrío , Danitza Daniela Benavides Cano, Derly Maritza Laguna Narváez, Juan Nicolás Barrera, Luis Alfredo Samboní, Jhonatan Martínez Méndez, Guido Alexander Galíndez Sáenz, Jhon Weimar Varón López, Héctor Fernando Chavarro Motta and Manuel de Salaman Imesús.
“They took advantage of their positions and connections as they were public officials at the Transport and Transportation Institute to commit procedural fraud and influence peddling, among other crimes,” the source said.
Jessica Porras Valderrama, director of Intrapitalito, said that most of the people arrested have no connection to the entity. “Among the people who were caught, only one of them was at the institution’s service at the moment, I don’t know if the other people were working here.”
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division of labour
The investigation against the criminal organization began with information delivered to the authorities by a human source. “The information gathered by the source showed that the group was led by the alias ‘Leonardo’, who had been committing crimes for several months,” said the source.
He alleged that the gang, in addition to illegal hate crimes, was also involved in stealing motorcycles, falsifying public documents and marketing vehicle parts that were in the grounds of the transit agency. “It is a group with structure and organization to coordinate criminal activities, using their cell phones as a means of communication,” said the source.
The investigations, reviews and telephone observations were essential to establish that the members of the group operating in Intrapitalito were heavily involved in the theft of motorcycles and vehicle parts that are in custody the traffic institute. “Using an opportunity feature method, they turned off the security cameras in the Intrapitalito patio facilities, without making records in the vehicle entry and exit books,” said the legal source.
He ensured that, in the development of the work of gathering technical evidence, documentary and testimony, the investigators of the CTI-Gaula Militar Special Investigation Unit found that the criminal network received money between $400 thousand pesos and $500 thousand pesos for each motorcycle they took from yards.
During the investigation, the officers established that Vargas Torres was the leader of the group; Juan Nicolás Barrera, José Jamer Morales Vargas and Jhonatan Martínez Méndez, are accused of giving away motorcycles and turning off cameras and lights in the patios.
Regarding Jhon Weimar Varón López, apparently, he was the one who received money from the parties; Guido Alexander Galíndez Sáenz, allegedly took parts of vehicles and turned off the lights; Luis Alfredo Samboní and Manuel de Jesús Salamanca Imbachi are said to be the people responsible for transporting the motorcycles that were taken out of the yard.
Derly Maritza Laguna Narváez worked in the Intrapitalito offices, apparently downloading reports from the system and hiding receipts, such as Danitza Daniela Benavides Cano; Carlos Alonso Rodríguez Berrío, is accused of saving passports, duplicating receipts, reprinting property cards and downloading notifications from the system.
It seems that Luisa Fernanda Calderón Lozada, Carlos Alonso’s secretary, put down parts of the system and duplicated false receipts; Héctor Fernando Chavarro Motta, Daniela’s husband and a truck driver, allegedly removed parts of vehicles from Intrapitalito, and the former director of Intrapitalito, William Iván Rojas Giraldo, allegedly allowed vehicles to leave the yards without legal requirements.
USB and computers
The operation expanded simultaneously in different sectors of the city of Pitalito, coordinated by the prosecutor of the Support Structure (EDA), which allowed the capture of members of the alleged criminal network, to the offices of Intrapitalito where the investigators were examining computers and hard drives. .
“They needed information and documents related to the various procedures and procedures carried out since the previous term,” said Jessica Porras Valderrama, director of Intrapitalito.
In the searches at the headquarters of the traffic agency and the homes of officers, guards and contractors, investigators seized vehicle license plates, computers, a cutting tool, USB flash drives, hard drives, and driving licenses.
Handbook
The prosecutor in the case brought the arrested persons to preliminary hearings before the Third Municipal Criminal Judge with Warrant Actions of Pitalito, Gabriel Arcos, who legalized the arrests and raids.
At the same time, the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office charged them with the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, embezzlement, concussion, theft and falsification of materials in a public document. “It would be up to them to ask the criminals for money to return the immobilized vehicles and to avoid fines,” explained the prosecutor in the hearing before the judge.
Yesterday the legal proceedings continued with the hearing to request a security measure. At the end of this edition, the legal executive’s decision was unknown.
The judicial source indicated that there are judicial notes in the Spoa system of the Prosecutor’s Office as the suspect, José Jamer Morales Vargas, for the crime of falsification of documents; Guido Alexander Galíndez Sáenz, investigated for personal injury with disability less than 60 days; Jhon Weymar Barón López, two judgment notes, one for absence of food and another for abuse of trust and Manuel De Jesús Salamanca Imbachi, four notes, one for absence of food, another for fraud, another for reception and another for ideological lies in a public document.
