The president of the UNP union would be indicted for corruption: a “drug driver” accuses him of sinister actions in the entity

The president of one of the trade unions of the National Protection Unit called UTUNP, Wilson Devia, has a court date for the charges on March 13. He is singled out by an entity and some witnesses as leading a network of corruption which, according to the president himself Gustavo Petroput the life of the protégés and even of the director of the UNPvictim of an alleged assault attributed to his work.

The case against Devia has attracted greater interest after the violent attack he suffered, which President Petro linked to allegations of corruption in the entity. The president asked the pursuit speed up the investigations and provide guarantees to the witness “of cocaine shipments that used the cars of the UNP and the rental cartel that set up fake shields”.

This serious Manuel Antonio Castanedathe driver of the UNP truck loaded with 150 kilos of cocaine and discovered Cauca. He would have agreed to collaborate with the prosecution as a witness and, after being captured, he would have sent a letter to Rodríguez in which he told him about the sinister operations of Devia within the entity and which would serve as evidence for the complaint .

In it, Castañeda confesses to having met Devia and a third person in the Hayuelos Shopping Center of Bogotá, in March 2019, during a meeting in which the union leader told him that for 200 million pesos I could assign him a UNP security plan.

Although the deal was not signed for the amount, Devia reportedly called him back to offer him a new deal. “He made me a proposal: which consisted in providing me with a protection scheme of 1 armored car and 3 escort units including the dignitary for my service in a complete way, which had to be entrusted to internal management since this scheme was not legally assigned to the subscriber. and the less the unit might realize,” the leaked document reads.

This scheme would have cost seven million pesos per month, which Castañeda claims to have accepted. They moved from Bogotá A Villavicencio, where the alleged protege lived, who had to answer for the food of the escorts. The van had a capacity of one million combustibleaccording to what he told the director of the entity.

The so-called narco driver claims to have been involved in other cases that led to possible corruption within the UNP. According to him, he offered him the participation of certain artists in the union’s end-of-year party in 2019 who showed up for free, but whom Devia allegedly declared as expenses.

In the year 2022, according to the document, their proximity would have been broken by unfinished businesses. Castañeda maintains that they had a meeting in the Nuestro Bogota Shopping Center and after saying goodbye to him, some people approached him to force him to leave, but the security personnel stopped him.

This document, according to the newspaper The weather, He was included in legal proceedings against Devia since 2013, for renting UNP vehicles in the middle of a carousel of contracts. For these facts, the prosecutor Angelique Monsalve He summoned him to the impeachment hearing, but he did not issue an assurance measure.

“The witness who wanted to speak was beaten inside the prisons to intimidate him. It is very important that the General taxation give him sufficient guarantees to know what is one of the worst acts of corruption, since it exposes all the people at risk in Colombia,” said the President Petro regarding Devia’s statements in the media, in which he assured that the director of the UNP was looking for “false positives” against the unions.

The prosecutor’s office reported that although Castañeda is being held by INPEC as a detainee in prison, they alerted the entity due to the security risks indicated by the witness. In addition, they continue “the advancement of the investigation, thanks to a specialized team of prosecutors and investigators and the collection of material evidence, material evidence and information legally obtained, a work that has been carried out in a constant and uninterrupted manner”.