With her eyes closed and a pair of handcuffs tightening her jacket, Ana Catalina Noguera, once powerful prosecutor He was photographed and later examined in the Prosecutor’s Office bunker, hours after he was captured by his former CTI colleagues in northern Bogota.
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Since last Monday, February 13, he has been sleeping in the dungeons of the entity he was head of the Asset Confiscation Unit, and also Criminal Finance Delegate. He even became a strong candidate for Assistant Attorney General.
in the middle of the week He eventually admitted that he was part of a crime syndicate to capture the wife of a former partner and was willing to sign a deal with the Prosecutor’s Office.
But the judge in the case described him as dangerous and sent him to jail. And now, his case and his accomplices may fall into the hands of the United States justice system.
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Although there are close circles to Noguera, the daughter of Rodrigo Noguera, former rector of Sergio Arboleda University, Although it reduces its case to human error and corporate cruelty, the DEA doesn’t think the same.
“They falsified a document from that agency, where it appears, to tap the phone Noguera ordered as an active prosecutor. “Special Agent Randall Baltman’s signature, and that’s a mistake the feds won’t ignore,” a Miami source said.
And added Members of this agency are confident that this is not the first time corrupt Colombian police officers affiliated with the DEA’s interagency group SIU have used US-donated equipment. doing dirty work.
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Actually, Mario Burgos, The prosecutor in the Ana Catalina Noguera case stressed that “for now” it will charge her with procedural fraud, breach of unlawful communication and breach of personal data.
At the prosecution’s hearing, Burgos was also clear that Noguera was part of a criminal network whose leader was a Police colonel. Former capo Carlos Ramón Zapata, nicknamed El Médico, using the identity of Ricardo Durán and also Ramón Esteban Peña Martínez.
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EL TIEMPO reports that Colonel Durán has been captured and that “The Doctor” It was delivered to a hotel in Medellín at the end of 2022.
And although he is under investigation for aggravated extortion, among other charges, he is currently under house arrest as a witness in the Office of the Attorney General, as confirmed by prosecutor Burgos himself after EL TIEMPO disclosed this information.
Prosecutor Burgos already has evidence that Carlos Ramón Zapata had access to information from drug lords or individuals investigated by the Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and the DEA.
He would then call them and demand large sums of money to help them solve their so-called cases. And he always talked about his closeness to the powerful prosecutor Ana Catalina Noguera.
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One of the victims of this network Óscar Adriano Quintero, the so-called prince of half-divers.
It is now being investigated whether ex-drug barons, aka Doctors Gabriel Puerta Parra and Ignacio Álvarez Meyendorff, are also doing any good.
He was photographed alongside Noguera and Carlos Ramón Zapata at the ‘Las 2 P’ hacienda, both owned by former capo Puerta Parra.. On that day, July 6, 2020, Paula Espinosa, who was an active investigator in the Prosecutor’s Office at the time, was also there.
After several photos of that meeting surfaced In the accusation against former prosecutor Noguera, former capo Gabriel Puerta Parra sent a stern letter to prosecutor Mario Burgos.
In this, he assures that in October 2022 before the accusatory body, he had already announced that the meeting with Noguera aimed to expand complaints about an alleged scheme to involve his relatives in the money laundering process.
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Actually, excapo points to this There was also a prosecutor on the farm, who briefed him on the acts of corruption in this institution during past administrations. And he slanders that the date on his farm wants to present him as a meeting of prosecutor Noguera and former capos.
EL TIEMPO, before the trip to the Puerta Parra farm in Puerto Boyacá (Boyacá), Álvarez Meyendorff’s lawyers made an appointment with Noguera to negotiate a settlement with him.
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Like Puerta Parra, they have offered to pass on information they allegedly received from corrupt officials of the prosecutor’s office. and they asked for a review of the return of 60 percent of the seized assets, which, according to them, had nothing to do with the brothers Ignacio and Juan Fernando Álvarez Meyendorff.
But for researchers, meetings sponsored by Carlos Ramón Zapata (who was an advisor to Álvarez Meyendorff) they had another purpose and a way of working.
“To give it a legal look, they showed the two prosecutors. (Daniel Hernandez and Daniel Cardona) so they will receive the former capos’ alleged complaints”, an investigator of the case assured.
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And he added that a lawyer who attended one of these meetings was given a luxury Harley-Davidson motorcycle. As a thank you from a former mobster for contacting him under the alias The Doctor.
For Prosecutor Burgos it is clear that The broken network had a defined strategy with roles and leaders.
As he explained, former capo Ramón Zapata extorted dozens of ex-mafia members or targets of the DEA and the Prosecutor’s Office. with the promise that it can clean up its files and even stop returns.
There is talk of claims between 500 million pesos and more than 1,000 million pesos followed by agents in Colombia and the United States today.
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One of the tips followed is the purchase of properties associated with a respected businessman known in the Harley-Davidson fan association.
As for former prosecutor Noguera, It has been confirmed whether there have been changes in the process assignments of the excapos that Ramón Zapata visited or whether there have been decisions to favor them.
The list of cases under review includes the dissolution of ownership of the mega-property linked to the ‘Meritage’ mafia. It is located on the outskirts of Medellín, a lawsuit against the Nation in the United States.
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Again with the claim that irregularities inside the shelter would be investigated, then Prosecutors Noguera and Carlos Ramón Zapata met with businessman Ángel Seda, who claimed to have purchased the property in good faith, at a luxury hotel in Medellín.
Ramón Zapata testified during this process in Colombia and confessed to holding another meeting. The place where they drank wine with Seda and talked about the course of the case.
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“This episode features Carlos Aguilar, the former head of the Envigado office. A source from Miami explained that the alias was “Rogelio”, who then prosecutor Noguera was to meet and contacted him under the pseudonym ‘el Médico’.
The same source assured that there are two more phases of the investigation, including the arrests. EL TIEMPO omits the names of those involved so as not to hinder the investigation.
But these are members of the Prosecution Office, a mafia lawyer, former judicial officials and uniformed men from Cali and Medellín. An official who may have assisted Carlos Ramón Zapata in enforcing the safe conduct of weapons in the Army, at the request of Ana Catalina Noguera, is also being investigated.
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As the investigation progresses, those close to former prosecutor Noguera insist that there was clear persecution against him. One piece of evidence, they say, is that Cali’s warrant control judge unusually sent him to jail, even though prosecutor Burgos requested that he be placed under house arrest.
They also do not understand why their case is being conducted in the Valley if the behavior imposed on them is registered in Bogotá. For now, his lawyer has objected to the detention measure.
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