2023-07-17 21:27:51
Through his social networks, this Monday, July 17, 2023, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, referred to a recent police operation carried out in his country against a group of Colombian citizens who had constituted a police force in that country. criminal network dedicated to laundering money through microfinance companies that they used as a front for their crimes.
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador. | Photo: Getty Images/SOPA Images
The foregoing, as has already been evident in the management and administration of Salvadoran law, does not represent a failure to guarantee due process.
In his speech on the case, Bukele stated that “Colombians are our brothers, but as in every society, there is always a small percentage that wants to take advantage of others,” thus referring to the capture of the group of citizens by the authorities. local.
Precisely, the news of the capture of this large group of Colombians was released this Monday, through a press conference offered by the National Prosecutor of that country, Rodolfo Delgado.
In his statement, Bukele also sent some barbs to the Petro government, by using the term ‘peace managers’, noting that his country’s prisons are ready to punish drug traffickers and fraudsters who intend to ‘visit’ his country.
Colombians are our brothers, but as in any society, there is always a small percentage that wants to take advantage of others; some of them have come to commit crimes in our country.
These people will have to face Salvadoran justice, whoever claims. https://t.co/RgpYGG4DNp
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) July 17, 2023
In the midst of the information released by the Attorney General of El Salvador himself, the group of detained Colombians was part of an organization that hid behind the façade of microfinance companies, which also did not have the recognition of the local financial authorities, who By offering loans with interest of around 20%, they managed to carry out money laundering activities.
After the collections, said money was sent to Colombia, using in some cases the same bank accounts of the creditors, in order not to arouse suspicion.
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador | Photo: Getty Images/SOPA Images
However, the illegal activity fell under the magnifying glass of the Salvadoran authorities, who, according to the report, were able to determine that from 2021 to date, this organization would have obtained close to $20 million dollars to Colombia.
In this regard, in the presentation of the case, made by the Salvadoran prosecutor, he pointed out that the money used for the ‘loans’ was of illegal origin, thereby referring to the fact that this Colombian organization profited from dividends derived from it. of the drug-trafficking business and the dangerous gangs.
In a call to the society of his country, the judicial official raised a call to the community asking that they not be deceived, and avoid being incautious in front of this class of people, who used the identity of Salvadoran citizens to send ill-gotten money to Colombia.
In the same order of ideas, the police forces of that country also reported the existence of more than 2,700 complaints referring to financial scams that occurred through digital media, and for which a group of Colombian compatriots is also presumed to be responsible.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele waves during the opening ceremony of the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, Friday, June 23, 2023. | Photo: AP
In the midst of the investigations into this large group of Colombians now detained in El Salvador, the local authorities stated that they had arrived in their country at different times, using the status of “tourists”, to finally seek to settle there for criminal purposes before described.
A warning with a threatening tone against Colombians in that country
Thus, the Salvadoran authorities also reported concern about the situation of irregular migration of Colombians to their country, and from the Ministry of Justice and Security, its highest representative, Minister Gustavo Villatoro denounced that Colombians who remain irregularly in their country It’s close to 500.
Regarding those people that the minister denounced as “irregulars,” he pointed out that they not only violate justice by being in El Salvador illegally, but also that they are carrying out illegal activities. such as the one already described, were carried out by those now arrested.
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