2023-11-18 18:05:05
This Saturday, November 18, former senator Mario Alberto Castaño Pérez, who was serving a sentence for corruption, died in La Picota prison in Bogotá.
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According to reports from Inpec, the former official died in the last few minutes, apparently due to a heart attack.
At this time, members of the Inpec judicial police are at the scene awaiting the procedure that will determine the causes of his death.
(Read: Who was former senator Mario Castaño, who died in La Picota?)
In June of this year, Mario Castaño, former senator for the Liberal Party, was sentenced to 15 years and 11 months in prison by the Supreme Court of Justice, following accepting that he led a criminal structure that, in complicity with a group of mayors, officials and individuals, appropriated multimillion-dollar State resources.
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The politician, who was captured on June 7, 2022, was convicted of the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, embezzlement by appropriation, attempted embezzlement by appropriation, aggravated fraud and concussion.
The Supreme Court ruling states that due to his position as a congressman, Castaño was able to have contact with various public sector officials and interfere in administrative and contracting procedures.
(We invite you to read: What the ruling of the historic conviction for corruption of former senator Mario Castaño says).
The criminal network headed by Castaño became known as ‘the Puppets’ and just this week the Prosecutor’s Office had announced a new blow with the prosecution of two people who would have irregularly benefited from contracts amounting to 25,436 million pesos.
These are Raúl Alfonso Cardozo Nuncira and Andrés José Ospina Rosales, who were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and improper interest in the execution of contracts, charges that they did not accept.
(You can read: Mancuso’s statement gave rise to more than 100 compels, including former presidents).
According to the Prosecutor’s Office investigation, Cardozo and Ospina would have irregularly benefited from contracts in Quindío and Tolima. One of those was signed between the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity (DPS), and the Company ‘Proyecta Quindío’, with a value greater than 49,000 million pesos destined to improve secondary roads.
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