The Second Court of Execution of Sentences of Montería granted house arrest to former senator Musa Besaile, convicted of alliances with paramilitary groups.
The former congressman of the U Party was serving a seven-year prison sentence for members of the high and medium security public force located in the Cacique Tirrome Battalion, of the 11th Brigade of the National Army, in the capital of Córdoba. .
As El Tiempo learned, guards from the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) coordinated his transfer on Thursday, January 4, and have him in custody.
On several occasions, the former senator’s defense had requested the modification of the security measure to a non-custodial measure or, failing that, house arrest.
In December 2022, the politician accepted having negotiated with paramilitaries, one of them Salvatore Mancuso. This was for the purpose of campaigning for the House of Representatives between 2001 and 2002. In fact, on that occasion Besaile was charged with the crime of aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime in the form of promoting groups outside the law for having allied with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
In September 2023, Musa Besaile accepted charges before the Supreme Court of Justice for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy, aggravated embezzlement by appropriation and contract without compliance with legal requirements.
The above, for constituting and leading the so-called Hemophilia cartel, events that occurred in the period 2012-2015, when in collaboration with the then governor Alejandro José Lyons, they joined forces with the objective of diverting public funds from the department to their own pockets. For these events, he accepted charges.
According to findings by the Attorney General’s Office, the network of Lyons and Besaile officials, in alliance with several Health Providing Institutions (IPS), made “false diagnoses, fraudulent laboratory results and unjustified increase in patients with hemophilia in the department of Córdoba”.
Some of the IPS that were part of the so-called hemophilia cartel were IPS Unidos por su Bienestar, Comunidad Sana and San José de la Sabana SAS.
In addition, he has tried to seek benefits for accepting the crime of concussion in the Toga cartel case. Besaile acknowledged having given him $2,000 million by Criminal Chamber Judge Gustavo Malo Fernández, so that he would stop the arrest warrant that was going to be issued against him due to parapolitics.
Said bribe would have been brokered by lawyer Luis Ignacio Lyons España, who ended up accused by the Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of bribery for giving and offering, when he defended former senator Musa Abraham Besaile in his trial for links with paramilitary groups.
It is noted that former judges Malo Fernández, together with Francisco Ricaurte, through the convicted former Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Luis Gustavo Moreno and lawyer Leonardo Pinilla, accused of being alias Porcino, had supposedly agreed to receive the money from Lyons and in this way favor Besaile.
In the investigation of the accusing body they found that there was an initial payment of $300 million that was delivered at two different times and $150 million went to Lyons Spain.
“The evidence shows that Lyons España, as the former congressman’s defender, responded to a proposal made by the lawyer Luis Gustavo Moreno to stop an arrest warrant against his client and other actions,” the Prosecutor’s Office explained.
Musa Besaile tried to submit to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), but he was expelled by a decision of the Appeals section and therefore, his process went to the Supreme Court of Justice. With Infobae