On the afternoon of Friday, September 3, the director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia, announced the capture of the signer of the Peace Agreement Harold Ordoñez Botero, accused of belonging to the dissident group of the demobilized Farc guerrilla, Adán Izquierdo.
Through a video, the director assured that Ordoñez Botero, who had run as a candidate for the House of Representatives in 2018, carried out “pseudo-political” leadership and extortion tasks within this residual group that operates in Valle del Cauca on the orders of Gentil Duarte himself.
“Harold Ordoñez Botero He has been sheltered with an intramural measure in a penitentiary and we await the maximum sentence, because he is responsible for several homicides, including social leaders, and the collection of extortions that the Police Criminal Investigation Directorate has documented with the Prosecutor’s Office”, Indicated the director of the Police, Jorge Luis Vargas.
Faced with this, the signatory’s lawyer, Elmer José Montaña, asked the Police Director for explanations regarding the statements in which he confirmed that the judge had determined an assurance measure, noting that at that time he was in the company of Ordoñez Botero in a recess while waiting for the official decision.
The lawyer indicated that this information was not true, arguing that up to that moment the defense intervention had concluded during the hearing, which is why the judge decreed a recess in order for the Prosecutor’s Office to analyze the elements that it had provided as evidence. that Ordoñez Botero was not alias Óscar, as the investigating body pointed out.
“This is a judicial false positive. The hearing has not been resumed, yet the police general has already announced that my client has received a preventive detention security measure. I ask you, General Vargas, where did you get this information? Who told you that my client had been imposed an insurance measure when the judge has not made the decision yet? What do you know, general, that the defense doesn’t?”, Said in a video, the lawyer Elmer Montaña.
Likewise, Montaña argued, in statements made known to El Tiempo, that his client had allegedly resembled the man accused of belonging to this residual criminal structure because of his nose and eyebrows, and that this case was similar to that of the Valle deputy, Sigifredo López , who had been in prison for a similarity to another man.
On the other hand, the lawyer explained that there is evidence that the movements of Ordoñez Botero and alias Óscar did not correspond to the days in which these crimes had been committed, because according to a Google record, his client would be in classes of his master’s degree at the Javeriana University of Cali or working as a contractor for the Secretariat of Territorial Peace and Reconciliation of the Government of Valle del Cauca during these days and at the times indicated.
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