It was about the fraud against SOAT for 3 billion pesos in which police would be involved

In a statement issued on March 6, 2023there Office of the Attorney General of the Nation announced the investigation it will open against National Police servers for alleged omissions that would have allowed several citizens to defraud the Compulsory traffic accident insurance – SOAT between the years 2019 and 2021.

The events allegedly occurred in Pereira. In several municipalities of Risaralda, 11 people were captured, a process that allowed the Public Ministry to take the decision to open the investigation process. According to information, the claims could amount to 3,000 million pesos.

Due to the situation, the Attorney General’s office sent a request to the Attorney General of the Nation in order to collect evidence, as well as possibly available evidence and other data to carry out the corresponding actions to take measures.

Thus, as indicated in the press release:

“The disciplinary action issued by the provincial of instruction of Pereira aims to determine the occurrence of the conduct, to establish whether it constitutes a disciplinary fault and to identify the official or officials involved in the alleged irregular situation reported.”

The decision to initiate an investigation procedure takes place after the capture of 11 peopleincluding two civil servants, for alleged acts of corruption towards the compulsory traffic accident insurance – SOAT.

The news was released by the Department of Transportation on February 13, 2023 during the strategic orientations used by the national government and which focused on the fight against crimes that undermined the public administration. Thus, the National Police, in collaboration with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Interpol, they managed to capture.

In the aftermath, 9 people who belonged to healthcare provider companies as well as 2 officials from the city of Pereira, people were also captured in the municipalities of Dosquebradas and La Virginia, in Risaralda.

The Ministry indicated that the capture was possible given the investigative work that had been carried out by the Dijin Anti-Corruption Investigation Zonewho worked hand in hand with the 39th section prosecutor’s office of the EDA support structure of the city of Pereira.

This is how it was possible to determine that 8 people, including legal representatives of 4 companies providing health services such as ambulances, as well as a security guard, a shareholder doctor, a paramedic and two public officials, have dedicated themselves to commit SOAT fraud. The facts would have been recorded in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Regarding the modus operandi, the ministry indicated that during the investigation, it was possible to establish that these people made announcements via social networks where they indicated that they offered “financial remuneration to those who participated in the fraud”, this with the intention of making them pass as alleged traffic accidents, whether sports injuries, diseases in general, falls at home, accidents at work, among others. To this was added that they also distributed flyers throughout the city.

“With this type of fraud, this criminal organization has managed to get them to make payments to ambulance companies, transferring patients to care centers for values ​​between 276,000 pesos and 300,000 pesos per person, they also made payments to provider clinics. health, for amounts ranging from 109 thousand pesos to more than 58 million for medical assistance,” the entity said.

According to reports, those captured were brought before a safeguards review judge. The prosecutor’s office laid charges for the offenses of conspiracy to commit a crime, abusive bribery, trading in influence as a public official and falsification of a private document.

On the other hand, the investigation also revealed that the SOAT of certain vehicles, among which cars and motorcycless, they posed to be treated for various traffic accidents and in this, the employees of the emergency response companies: “they hired SOAT from vehicles they owned, to commit fraud with people who were sent to ambulances for fake accidents.”