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the former prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera was sent to prison Thursday, February 16 by order of a Cali judge. The former official must answer to the authorities for having participated in illegal interceptions that were carried out for different purposes while working in the office of the Attorney General of the Nation.
Captured Ana Catalina Noguera, former director of asset forfeiture of the prosecutor’s office
According to the judicial body, the former official had committed acts of judicial corruption in which former members and active members of the National Police were involved, including a colonel
It should be noted that the prosecutor Mario Burgos, in charge of this case, assured that currently the crimes for which Noguera is accused are the illegal violation of communications and the violation of personal data.
During the hearing during which it was decided that she would go to prison, the former prosecutor admitted to having influenced the illegal interceptions, but he pointed out that they were of a passionate type.
This is the evidence that led to the arrest of former prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera
Noguera, daughter of the former rector of Sergio Arboleda University, Rodrigo Noguera, will be presented before a magistrate of the Bogotá court. There will be the prosecutor Mario Burgos who imputes his accusations
The DEA, an American agency, apparently believes that former prosecutor Noguera is part of a network involving various mafia bosses, in which different acts of corruption were committed to allegedly collect extortion to avoid extraditions.
The newspaper The weather recently announced that a Miami source assures that amid acts of corruption, sWe forged a DEA document that also used the name of a special agent. In addition, this entity would be sure that it is not the first time that events such as the one involving the former prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera are presented.
It’s about Gabriel Puerta Parra, a drug trafficker who helped capture Pablo Escobar and who appears in the file of former prosecutor Noguera
He was extradited in 2004, under the presidency of Álvaro Uribe Vélez. In 2010 he returned to Colombia. Around 2017, his name resonated within the Colombian justice system after he was involved in an alleged money laundering case.
“To intercept the phone that Noguera ordered, being an active prosecutor, they forged a document from this agency, where the signature of Special Agent Randall Baltman appears and it is an error that the federal authorities will not ignore” , the source informed him. the newspaper mentioned above.
So far, no official statement has been made by the agency announcing an investigation or intervention in this matter of corruption within the prosecution and other Colombian entities.
Former prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera, after accepting the charges, will be sentenced for the crimes of procedural fraud, violation of unlawful communication and violation of personal data.
During the hearing, his defense appealed the judge’s decision, taking into account that the attorney general’s office had requested house arrest. But the judge warned that the crimes charged “They don’t allow you to grant this judicial benefit.”
In another of his rulings, the Cali judge pointed out that the former official “could obstruct justice”and that he posed a danger to the community and to the victims, including a minor.
The determination of the togado was not rejected by the attorney general’s office or the attorney general’s office. In addition, the judge stated that “the contestation of the competition was not dealt with, since the facts attributed to her by the prosecution are related to the time when she was a high official of this entity. By legal jurisdiction, the competent jurisdiction is the Superior Court of Bogotá”.
During the indictment hearing against the former Director of Asset Forfeiture, Ana Catalina Noguera Toro, which took place on Tuesday, February 14, the prosecutor in charge of the case, Mario Andrés Burgos, presented the elements evidence that would link her to a criminal network would be led by Colonel of the Djin Ricardo Albertocurrently in prison, and Ramón Esteban Peña Martínez, alias El Médico, a drug trafficker and with whom he is said to have a close relationship.
That day, Noguera replied to the judge: “I accept the charges in a pre-agreed manner in the terms that my lawyer discussed with the prosecutor”, he assured after the routine question.
The Attorney General’s office pointed out that Ana Catalina Noguera Toro’s role in the criminal network was to locate people who had unfinished processes, “identify them and extort large sums of money so that they do not not be extradited to the United States”.
In bulletin 47693, the investigative body pointed out: “The prosecution has sufficient material and technical evidence to support this legal action which will help to clarify what happened and establish the corresponding criminal responsibilities”.
For these actions, an active official of the national police, Colonel Ricardo Alberto Durán, and two former officials of the same institution, the patrolman Anderson Jesús Alva Contreras and the mayor Jhon Fredy Redondo Bautista, are also prosecuted. In addition to Carlos Ramón Zapata, known under the pseudonym of El Médico and who has been investigated for drug trafficking.