The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, JEP, opened an incident of noncompliance once morest the retired colonel Robinson González del Ríowho supposedly he would have allied himself with the drug trafficker Juan Larrison Castro Estupiñán, alias Matamba, to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe.
Without giving more details regarding the opening of the incident, the JEP announced that the decision was made by the Chamber for the Definition of Legal Situations, who is in charge of deciding whether or not to expel the colonel (r).
González del Río is currently appearing in the JEP following being co-author of at least 32 false positives executed between 2006 y 2009. After taking refuge in the Jurisdiction in 2018, Colonel (r) became one of the star witnesses once morest General (r) Mario Montoya, who is accused of ordering extrajudicial executions during his command of the National Army.
After several contributions to the case of false positives, the JEP granted him early release and conditioned. However, González del Río was recaptured once more in February of this year in a mega operation of the Attorney General’s Office.
At that time, the colonel (r) fell along with 14 other people – among whom were several active and retired soldiers – who were accused of collaborating with Matamba not only to send cocaine abroad, but also to train the men of that armed structure and to inform him of operations once morest him.
According to the accusing body, Colonel (r) González he was also in charge of recruiting several members of the Public Force and to pay them high salaries to move the Army troops when they went to cross goods.
Will he be expelled from the JEP?
After these events, the groups of victims asked the JEP to take away the benefits acquired and expel him from the Jurisdiction, since, according to the investigation by the authorities, the illegal acts of González would have occurred following 2016, which would force him to withdraw. of the entity for dealing with crimes committed following the signing of the Peace Agreement.
With this incident of non-compliance, the JEP will evaluate whether González del Río did not fulfill his commitments as an appearing party. If he finds sufficient evidence to consider that this was the case, the colonel (r) will be expelled and his multiple files will be passed back to the Attorney General’s Office, who had already sentenced him to more than 74 years in prison.
For now, the decision to expel him is in the hands of the Chamber for the Definition of Legal Situations. This investigation process – which is part of the right to due process – might take around three months, or even less.
