This Sunday, August 8, it was announced that the Ninth Specialized Criminal Court of Bogotá, with a function of knowledge, Lidya Andrea Moncada Matuk was sentenced to 43 years in prison, responsible for the crimes of aggravated extortion kidnapping, with more punishable circumstances, and qualified and aggravated robbery. In addition, it orders him to pay a fine of 17,499.99 legal monthly minimum wages in force and inability to exercise public rights and functions for a period of 20 years.
The woman, who is 43 years old today, was part of a criminal gang that operated in the center of Bogotá and other cities such as Cali and Medellín. and was in charge of making ‘millionaire rides’, the modus operandi of the criminals was to drug their victims by taking advantage of entertainment centers such as bars and nightclubs, once defenseless people robbed them by giving them a car ride in which they were making compas with the cards of the victim and later they left them voted in the street.
The events for which Moncada was convicted occurred in 2018, his victim was Second Lieutenant Esteban Camilo Ojeda Erazo, a native of Pasto and an intelligence agent who not only stole his belongings, but also tortured him in the company of other criminals and they murdered him for being an active member of the police.
According to the authorities, Ojeda, 29, who disappeared on April 7, 2018, was found dead ten days later in the Egypt neighborhood of the city of Bogotá. However, the place where he was intercepted by Moncada and the criminal gang that accompanied him was near the portal of the 80, since that night the second lieutenant went to eat at an establishment in that sector. The evidence collected by the authorities included videos from 180 surveillance cameras that could show the journey through which the victim suffered, which ended up in a downtown bar where he was drugged.
“Moncada Matuk entered with the victim, Police Second Lieutenant Esteban Camilo Ojeda Erazo, to a bar located in the Santa Fe neighborhood of the country’s capital. In the place, the woman, with the help of the waiter, gave the officer sedatives in the liquor they were consuming and hallucinogenic substances repeatedly, until he was left in a defenseless state “, said the prosecution.
In the images that the researchers collected, several members of the band were recorded as inside the entertainment establishment, which was led by Jhon Edison Segura Vargas, alias ‘Barbas’, who was captured in December 2018 and was wanted from before for participating in at least 14 ‘millionaire walks’, participated in the process where once defenseless They stole his belongings and bank cards, with which he made purchases in different commercial establishments for more than $ 5,000,000.
According to the investigation, in order to make use of the victim’s cards, the thieves tank the car at various service stations in Bogotá, withdrew money from different ATMs, and made purchases with the card before executing the police.
Once they got what they were looking for from Esteban Camilo Ojeda Erazo, the criminals put him in a vehicle and transferred him to a building in the El Parejo neighborhood, where they kept him detained and tortured him to death, later the body of the victim was buried in a common grave and days later the body of the officer was found by the authorities with signs of blows all over the body.
For these events, including the homicide, Wiston Orozco Montero has already been sentenced to 53 years in prison and Sergio Esteban Zamora Bello, driver of the vehicle in which the victim was transferred, to 40 years in prison.
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