With the arrest of 22 soldiers and two civilians, a network of corruption within the Army was put to an end. that presumably certified the entry and presence of people who were not part of the military forces.
Between the involved are a lieutenant colonel, two majors, a second lieutenant, several sergeants and corporals attached to a unit located in the department of Guaviare, reported this Saturday the Prosecutor’s Office, which estimated the fraud at about 320 million pesos.
Military network fell
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“It is believed that the defendants falsified medical examinations for incorporation, administrative processes, allocations of war material, food, payroll payments, delivery of hygiene kits, and payments of cash bonuses. for soldiers allegedly in combat zones“, said the inter-researcher.
The investigations revealed that those involved uploaded false information in Army databases to give them a appearance of legality to fraud. They even used footprints
digital, without authorization, in “official documents to support psychotechnical tests of incorporation”.
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Those involved were accused of conspiracy to commit an aggravated crimeembezzlement by appropriation, procedural fraud, aggravated constraint to commit a crime, abuse of public functions, ideological and material falsehood in a public document, and abuse of authority by arbitrary and unfair act.
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