Attack against the director of the UNP, where the clues point: attempted robbery or hitmen sent by a boss

On the night of February 7, Augusto Rodríguez, director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), was the victim of an attack on his way to his home, a house located in the neighborhood Ciudad Montes, south of Bogotá. According to what was known, the truck in which he was being transported was shot by a man who was driving a motorcycle as a barbecue. authorities are investigating What’s behind. by the timeThere are two theories about what happened.

One of the hypotheses that are dealt with in the context of the case is an alleged intention to steal from the truck. According to a survey conducted by the newspaper The weatherthe designated hitman, identified as Fabian Esteven Duarte Ortizwho also died at the scene due to the exchange of gunfire that took place with Rodríguez’s security system, he was recognized to be a thief what was requested for extradition by Argentina.

An investigator of the case consulted by this national newspaper pointed out that what was happening at night was very similar to what he used to do to advance his car thefts. In fact, the Bogota Government Secretariat, As established in a document dated May 13, 2022, he had been subpoenaed for “bear armssharp, pointed or similar items, or hazardous substances, in common areas or places open to the public.

Now, with regard to the other theory, the one that indicates there is a boss behind the affair, information is highlighted which indicates that, supposedly, the UNP was infiltrated by a boss of the “Envigado office”. The weather, In his post on the subject, he claims that at least two escorts who are assigned to the security projects of the department of Antioquia, would be connected to a capo which generally remains in the extraditable pavilion of La Picota prison.

“He is the same who tried, without success, be appointed peace facilitator“, comments the source consulted by this national media. One of the bodyguards believed to be related to the boss is accused of using the truck of a human rights defender from Medellín carry cocaine.

Indeed, on Wednesday March 8, the President of the Colombian Republic, Gustave Petro, assured that behind the attack on the director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), Augusto Rodríguez, hides the cartel of corruption that operates within this entity, Inpec and the Attorney General’s Office.

“The prosecution has in its possession the witness to the shipments of cocaine which used the cars of the UNP and the rental cartel which he put fake armor on the cars with which people at risk are cared for. The cartel operates within Inpec, the UNP, the Public Prosecutor’s Office (…) The witness who wanted to speak was beaten inside the prisons to intimidate him. It is very important that the public prosecutor gives you the guarantees enough to know which is one of the worst acts of corruption since it exposes all those threatened in Colombia”, wrote the president on his Twitter account.

Precisely, moments after the presentation of his testimony, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation issued a statement in which he clarified that “It is not true that the witness in question is “in power” from the Attorney General’s office. This is a person deprived of liberty in a prison, whose guarantee of protection corresponds to the director of the National Penitentiary and Penitentiary Institute, no to the attorney general of the nation”.