Police subintendent placed under house arrest over alleged financial fraud against officers in Chocó
A guarantee magistrate ordered house arrest for Yeison Andrés Mosquera Moreno, an officer of the National Police, accused alongside a civilian woman of defrauding fellow officers through loans with blank documents in Cértegui, Chocó.
Police subintendent placed under house arrest over alleged financial fraud against officers in Chocó
A control of guarantee magistrate ordered Yeison Andrés Mosquera Moreno, an officer of the National Police, to serve house arrest whilst an investigation into his conduct is carried out. The uniformed officer is being investigated for a scheme of irregular loans that is reported to have affected several of his colleagues in the municipality of Cértegui, located in the department of Chocó.
According to reporting by the outlet Vanguardia, the inquiry indicates that Mosquera Moreno acted jointly with Luz Miryam Marulanda Moreno, a person outside the institution. Both reportedly required agents to sign credit instruments without completing them in exchange for advances of small sums of money.
When the debtors finished paying, the documents were not returned to them. Instead, it is presumed they were completed with sums considerably larger than those initially agreed upon. Throughout the investigation, thirteen formal complaints were collected from victims who reported this conduct.
The documents reportedly were later transferred to a co-operative entity whose physical location has not been established. That organisation reportedly filed executive legal actions against those affected, obtaining in some cases judicial decisions that allowed the retention of up to a quarter of the salary income of the police officers harmed.
The officer and the woman accompanying him were formally accused of committing the offences of procedural fraud, falsification in a private document, and obtaining improper benefits by private parties. The case brings to light alleged criminal manoeuvres committed from within the institution against its own members.
The judicial bodies continue to pursue the process to determine the totality of the facts and establish the degree of responsibility of each of the alleged parties involved in this network of usury and documentary falsification.
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