:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/56JBVAVT5NEU3KGNQCEEZOLXCA.jpg "This is the evidence that led to the arrest of former prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera")
On the morning of Monday, February 13, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation reported the capture of Ana Catalina Noguera Toro, former specialist director of the Extinction of Domain Rights during the administration of the former president of the country, Iván Duque. The former delegate against Criminal Finance, in 2020, is accused of having links with the ex-capo of the Medellín cartel, Carlos Ramon Zapata and of having committed irregularities while he was pursuit. That’s what’s behind your case.
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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
“For these irregular actions, an active official of the National Police, Colonel Ricardo Alberto Durán, who belonged to the interagency group of the UES, and two former officials of the same place, the patrolman Anderson Jesus Alva Contreras and the mayor John Fredy Redondo Bautista. In addition to Carlos Ramón Zapata, known under the pseudonym of El Médico and who was the subject of investigations for drug trafficking”, indicated the prosecution in a press release addressed to public opinion.
The Noguera case began to surface in 2021. The woman was captured in her home, north of Bogotá, for the crimes of procedural fraud, unlawful communications breach and personal data breach. His arrest took place just days after the capture of police colonel Ricardo Durán, also implicated in the case.
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The man in uniform is accused of having illegally intercepted the telephone line of a person close to Noguera’s ex-girlfriend. This recording, in fact, was found on the cell phone of the former capo Carlos Ramon Zapata.
Added to this is that Walnut estaría involucrada también en lo que respecta a la investigación que se adelanta por el caso de extortion que ronda a Zapata, a quien se le acusa de exigir grande sumas de dinero a capos y excapos para interceder en sus procesos de extradition y evitar que los llevaran to UNITED STATES.
In an interview with the newspaper El Tiempo, a source familiar with the matter explained that: “Ramon Zapata came to meetings with the mafia bringing information that the DEA interagency group SIU had against the drug lords. Apparently, Colonel Durán and two other men in uniform provided it to him. He also transported file data to the prosecutor’s office and demanded money from bosses to fix their processes.”.
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Patroller Alva Contreras, Mayor Redondo Bautista and alias El Médico have already accepted responsibility for this type of crime. Noguera, who is also the daughter of the former rector of Sergio Arboleda University, Rodrigo Noguera, will be brought before a magistrate in the Bogotá court. There, it will be the prosecutor Mario Burgos who will indict him.
Ana Catalina Noguera She was one of the trusted officials of the Attorney General of the Nation at the time, Néstor Humberto Martínez, and her departure from the entity had several precedents: the first, known on November 10, 2021, involved her cousins Rafael Enrique Noguera Abello there Enrique Rafael Noguera Ramirezextradited to the United States for the crime of drug trafficking.
A day later, Ana Noguera was removed from her position as delegate for Criminal Finance, and some time later she left the prosecutor’s office for good. In April 2022, her name came back following several recordings of private meetings between her, her father, Rodrigo Noguera, and prosecutor Angélica Monsalve, who denounced pressure not to indict several members of the Rios Velilla Familyone of the most powerful in Bogotá.
In these conversations, revealed by journalist Daniel Coronell, the former Director of Forfeiture of Public Prosecution Assets was overheard saying that the Ríos Velilla case was also linked to what they tried to hide “from the Prosecution, with THE Odebrecht and all that. Because it’s all connected. So it doesn’t suit him because they start digging into things that don’t suit him,” according to one of the audios collected by The viewer.
At the time, Transmilenio company requested an investigation against the two brothers because they allegedly hid being the contracting parties due to a possible disability because they were the uncles of the councilor of Bogotá, Felipe Rios Londonoof the Radical Change party. On the other hand, the Recaudo Bogotá company had won the tender, but it was presented as a Chilean company.
At the time, Javier and Carlos Ríos indicated in a dialogue with On the Radio that “we do not participate in the company as a shareholder. When they decided to bid They ask us to join us.” Moreover, they denied belonging to the consortium Bogota SAS collectiona group consisting of Citymovil of Chile and LG from Korea.
But one of the most important pieces of evidence that the attorney was a contract of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), entity in charge of the World Bank, and which was signed between the IFC and Recaudo Bogotá in February 2013, year in which the concession with TransMilenio was already in force.