Important businessmen, civil servants and people close to different governments and surgeons who wanted to erase their dark past from the Internet

Drug traffickers, corrupt businessmen, surgeons and former officials of different local and national governments in Colombia attended the Spanish firm Elimination to eliminate their data and press releases reporting all the crimes they have committed or in which they have been implicated.

For starters, Eliminalia is a company hired by several Latin American companies to “enhance the reputation” of private clients by removing content from the Internet, such as articles and complaints published in the media. In Colombia, the speaker Innumerable hired these services to remove more than 70 articles implicating them in the Odebrecht scandal.

More specifically, this construction company audited the contract corresponding to the works of the Tunjuelo-Canoas tunnel. According to investigations, this company paid bribes and, in that order, did not do well with the process. Regarding its link with Eliminalia, Santiago Méndez -legal representative of Contelac- said that they hired the Spanish company in 2020, but did not have the expected results because the payments were not made in full. .

However, several articles have been removed from the web, including an order issued by the Comptroller General of the Republic.

A first list of Colombian clients has been published by the empty chair in 2021. It was made up of arrested drug traffickers and surgeons. Recently, The viewer announced that there were about 58 clients, among them other businessmen and people close to the town hall of Gustavo Petro and the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

Although he barely lasted a year as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Ernesto Samper Pizano —1994 – 1998—, Morris Harf Meyer was investigated and accused of irregularities in his management, such as carrying out a charter flight to Lima and paying with public resources.

According to the aforementioned media, in 2017 he signed a contract with Eliminalia for 12,200 euros for the elimination of 26 Internet documents that reported said irregularities. Between them, nine articles were de-indexed press releases in which they mentioned problems he had with the state due to financial problems in his companies. The Spanish company was even ordered to eliminate several decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice and a resolution of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce in which it imposed a fine on one of its companies.

He and Milton Cabeza Peñaranda are among those involved in the scandal of garbage trucks imported under the local administration of the current President of the Republic. Additionally, Orlando also appeared as a client of Eliminalia. In 2020, he took down several press releases through a technique that involved creating blogs to copy other media’s press releases and subsequently filing copyright lawsuits arguing that the media in the original publications had plagiarized these texts.

One of those who tried to be plagiarized was the column Garbage-smelling helicopters by analyst Jorge Hernán Peláez and published on February 7, 2013 in The Republic. He quoted a section of the book General Serrucho by Manuel Vicente Peña and in which he mentions that Cabeza “(…) linked to the famous episode of the small plane that was detained at 6 o’clock in the afternoon at the airport of Montería, in 1994, at the approaching the second presidential round, which It was loaded with money that drug trafficking had given to the campaign of Ernesto Samper, “El Bojote” (…) The aeromotor was piloted by Orlando Cabeza and a subject named oscar isazaresponsible for bringing 100 million dollars to the capital of Cordoba”.

In the list revealed by The viewer tThe TV businessman’s names also appeared Juan Gonzalo Angel, And his brother Luis Guillermowhich has been repeatedly associated with the Medellin Cartel for his work as a pilot. In 2020, cancellation of 13,000 euros to destroy internet 49 documents, among them a column of the periodista Daniel Coronell in the such denunció que la aeronave en la cual murió Pedro Juan Moreno —político cercano a Álvaro Uribe Vélez— estaba a number of su business.