WEEK saw, for the first time, the document with which the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation constituted a special agency to intervene in the file once morest a police patrol car for alleged induction into prostitution. In this case, the protagonist of this scandal is the patrol officer Daniela Echeverry Gómez, attached to the Metropolitan Police Command in the capital of Bolívar and who was captured on December 18.
In the same process another woman named Bertha Ramírez Torres, indicated for her alleged responsibility in the crimes of human trafficking, inducement to prostitution, use of minors for the commission of crimes and drug trafficking.
“The special agency was assigned to Judicial Prosecutor 31 I of the Public Ministry’s delegate for Criminal Affairs, who will be in charge of intervening and permanently monitoring the proceedings that are carried out in the development of the process,” said the Attorney General’s Office.
And it is not for less. Daniel Echeverry, according to the evidence, took advantage of his position in the Childhood and Adolescence division in Cartagena to allow and induce prostitution and trafficking in women. in highly visited tourist spots such as Barú, the Historic Center and the Rosario Islands.
The advanced hearing once morest the two defendants continues today at 2 pm, before a Judge of Control of Guarantees of Cartagena.
Another scandal in the Police
The case of the patrol car in Cartagena occurs a few days following another case under the magnifying glass of the Attorney General’s Office: that of Diana Carolina Morales Palma, a woman who was, until recently, a National Police patrol car, with good behavior, without any suspicion from his companions, and who ended up involved in the eye of the hurricane.
A few days ago, she was captured in the middle of a ceremony in which she was even present the entity’s director, Henry Armando Sanabria.
“I already said that there was always a misfortune in December, everyone is responsible for their actions,” Sanabria is heard saying in the video while the patrol car is taken away in handcuffs in front of all her colleagues.
While the officer was speaking, he gave the order to pass in front of the other police officers to the patrol car identified with the last names Morales Palma, who is being accused of defrauding the organization in which he worked.
Morales Palma is accused of the possible theft of between 200 and 300 million pesos. How did it happen? According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the patrol car worked in the Treasury area of the National Police and from there she altered the entity’s information system to divert large sums of money to her relatives.
According to sources consulted by WEEK, The uniformed woman accepted various charges such as procedural fraud, disobedience, embezzlement by appropriation, abusive access to the computer system and embezzlement by attempted appropriation. These crimes have already been charged once morest him by a delegated prosecutor who will have to review the file and determine if there are elements for a recall, which would be the most likely scenario.
According to the file, the patrol car took advantage of the knowledge it had to make payments in favor of third parties, including creditors through information systems SIIF Nación II, which belongs to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, and the second system used was SAP. from the Ministry of Defence.
The patrol boat, as he was able to establish WEEK, made the payment of four transactions for a total value of $286,376,656.46 and an amount close to $75,000,000 remained pending payment.
then comes another transfer of $69,872,432.25 and one more for $37,985,687.31 with two payment orders of different references.
Another payment of $88,954,341.02 appears in the file, whose reference is 307125622. In this case, Morales Palma made the payment to a third party, and the sum of money was sent or transferred to a personal savings account.
While the Police capture and imprison the same uniformed officers, the Government requests the release of criminals.
