The General Prosecutor of the Nation captured nine people accused of creating an illegal network of 11 facade companies, to give the appearance of legality millionaire sums of money sent from abroad.
These people apparently used their positions in different companies in Barranquilla to receive more of 100,000 million pesos coming from Turkey, China, the United States, Panama, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Hong Kong, that corresponded to advance drafts for exports that were never made.
For these facts, a fiscal of the Specialized Directorate once morest Money Laundering charged those possibly involved with the crimes of money laundering, illicit enrichment and conspiracy to commit a crime.
The accused There are many different types of characters in the film, but the most common ones are the ones that are characters from the movies. Eight of the nine defendants were sheltered with house arrest, one will face the process in freedom.
The elements collected during the operation indicate that this money, apparently, was put into circulation in the Colombian financial torrent, through third parties contacted to collect or endorse checks, among other maneuvers.
In this way, presumably, they materialized 364 forex tradingwhich made money laundering possible for more than 58,261 million pesos. In addition, the collection of 595 cheques for a value of more than 57,000 million pesos.
*With information from the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.