Taken from: Boyacá Sie7e Días
The former House consultant has been sentenced by the Supreme Court to 5 years and 7 months in jail for the crime of peddling the affect of a public servant.
In February of this 12 months, the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the sentence of 5 years and 7 months in jail towards the previous consultant of the Chamber of Radical Change Gustavo Hernán Puentes Díaz.
With this ruling, the High Court had additionally issued an arrest warrant towards the previous congressman from Boyacá to serve his sentence in a jail facility, however he had not appeared earlier than the competent authorities.
Boyacá Sie7e Días realized completely that on Saturday afternoon, the Boyacá native from Sogamoso and a household from Tópaga, was captured within the capital of Casanare the place he apparently went periodically to a farm they’ve there. In the subsequent few days he may very well be transferred to Bogotá, to the Picota jail to the general public officers’ pavilion.
In October 2021, the Supreme Court of Justice discovered Puentes Díaz responsible of utilizing his place as a congressman between 2008 and 2010 to improperly affect two administrators of the then National Narcotics Directorate (DNE), with the aim of getting them appoint depositaries of an asset seized from two non-public pals and political collaborators of his.
For the Trial Chamber, the means of information on this case present, with out room for ambiguity, that Puentes Díaz illegally used the affect derived from his place for his personal profit and that of third events, to nominate the 2 depositaries who lacked the suitability required for that place, violating the authorized course of for his appointment.
According to the Court, in alternate for this administration, the consultant to the Chamber obtained financial and political advantages.
Source: Boyacá Sie7e Días