Clan del Golfo estaría detrás de empresa contratista con operación en ocho departamentos

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At the WU, Colonel Daniel'
s report. Please. Good morning and

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a very special greeting to your brave
guest what history is all about. Good

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morning, July. This is the
Colonel report. The Gulf Clan, which

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is the largest criminal organization in Colombia, would be behind an engineering company that

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has had public works contracts in eight
departments of Colombia directly or through its associates

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in consortia and temporary unions. The
complaint will be filed in the next few

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hours with the Attorney General of the
Nation light Adriana Camargo, by Congresswoman Carolina

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Giraldo Botero, representative to the House
porris Aralda and member of the Green Alliance

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Party. According to the extensive and
documented memorial, the company PROICOM SAS has

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among its partners Hipólito Mendoza, Cea
and César Augusto Rincón González, who in

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two thousand twenty- one were captured
for allegedly related to the structure of ferrate

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testa and laundering of assets of the
Gulf Glande. According to the complaint,

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one of those mentioned, Hipólito Mendoza
has had control over more than three zero

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goods, furniture and real estate,
livestock and commercial establishments. All this has

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been evaluated at more than 250 billion
pesos. But curiously, a person with

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so many fortunes has taken time to
continue to be a member of the legislative

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work unit of Cristóbal Rodríguez Hernández,
who was a representative of the U Party

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House by Boyacá. Mr Mendoza sea
He was also a contractor for the first

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vice- presidency of the House of
Representatives on the recommendation of Congressman Oscar Villamizar

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Meneses representative to the House of the
Centro Democrático por Santander, a former member

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of the Indictment Commission, who we
spoke about and also first vice- president

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of the House. Another partner of
the contractor company is César Augusto Rincón González,

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noted for his alleged link with the
Gulf Plan and the office in vigada.

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According to the complaint of Representative Carolina
Giraldo, the two men would have

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ties with John Fredy and Zapata Garzón
alias Messi or padlock and John Henry González

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Herrera alias Medio Labio. Proicom Saz
has had contracts for twenty- two million

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pesos in eight departments and twelve municipalities. Valla Solano in Chocó, Chinchina,

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Manizales, Samaná and Pacora, in
Caldas, Marseille and Pereira, in Risaralda,

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Girardota in Antioquia, Puerto and Iria, in Guaynia, Puerto Rico,

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in Caquetá, Purification in Tolima and
Tame in Arauca. Through companies that are

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shareholders of PROICOM. He has also
hired lighting themes in Cauca and Risaralda.

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In short, the complaint aims to
discover the way in which the crime structure

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feeds itself with public money from taxpayers' money to strengthen its criminal operation.

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At this time we have communication with
the House Representative, Carolina Giraldo. How

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to cist good morning, very good
morning, Daniel, a very special sale

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to the entire audience. Tell us
briefly, what is the basis of the

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complaint that you will file with the
Attorney General in the next few hours.

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Well, we' ve been doing
this research since February and, in fact,

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what we found is that this company, of which these people who have

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already been captured for belonging to this
structure of front companies of the Gulf clan,

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would be doing contracting related to main
public lighting. In fact, there

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are nine departments in the country and
sixteen municipalities, the epicentre of recruitment being

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the departments of Risaralda and Caldas.
But coming as you just mentioned, to

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many other irrigated municipalities of the country, small municipalities, many times sixth category,

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where no one puts their eyes on
and finally with their name or having

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paper companies themselves or through mixed economy
companies, they almost end up taking over

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the public lighting of these municipalities.
How you can show the link between this

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engineering company and the contracting companies that
work in coordination with it, with the

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Gulf clan. Well, there had
already been a first capture, which was

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the capture of Alias Messi And as
a result of that capture, precisely then

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they captured Hipólito Mendoza Sea and César
Augusto Rincón. And it is these two

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people that we see appearing in the
statutes, in the documents of PROICOM Chamber

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of Commerce and what happens just when
they enter to become part of this company?

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This company also has an atypical capitalization, which ends up doubling its capital

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in less than six months. And
this is just the way, as they

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say they were operating in other front
companies that have already been denounced, but

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this has not been denounced. One
of the people mentioned by you your complaint

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as part of this alleged operation,
of this ferrate and money laundering is Mr

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Hipólito Mendoza. Whether he has had
links with the House of Representatives. You

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want to tell us what those links
are. Yeah, I think it'

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s amazing that I found this in
the middle of this investigation. The truth,

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this name, that of Hipólito Mendoza, is almost that the leading thread

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of the investigation And when we found
that it had been part of the team

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of the legislative work unit of former
congressman Cristóbal Rodríguez Hernández de Boyacá, of

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the U Party and that after that, it had also been contractor of the

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First Vice President, when the Vice
President was Oscar Leonardo to call. For

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one is absolutely surprised, because when
the police do the capture, what he

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says in his statement is that this
network is since the year two thousand nine

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and here they were working in the
Chamber in the year two thousand eighteen two

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thousand nineteen before being captured. And
precisely everything about proico coincides with these dates,

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that is, when they were working
here, this criminal structure was already

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on fire that the s Mr Sea
says in a part of the resume that

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it presented for its counter- pateration
by the first Vice President of the House

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on the recommendation of Congressman Oscar Villamizar, who has been Commissioner of the Police.

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What you could have found out about
that, Madam Representative, about that,

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we' re actually putting the paperwork
to the prosecutor precisely to finish doing

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these investigations. She, with her
prosecution team, has, let' s

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say, every opportunity to do the
investigations. What we did was we sent

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a petition right to the Ministry of
Defence. At the Ministry of Defence we

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are told that with that charge,
specifically no one of that name appears,

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but perhaps in other settings of the
Ministry yes, so we don' t

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know. The Gulf clan is right
now in an approach within a peace process

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with the Government under the name of
the Gaitanist army of Colombia, how the

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discovery of such illegal operations should influence
that process being carried out by the Government.

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Well, the first thing is that
I think that in this case and

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in all cases of peace processes,
there' s going to be a clear

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commitment to the truth, that is, if really these people have already been

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captured. We are talking about alias
month and alias half lip and polito Mendoza,

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César Augusto Rincón make larral available.
I think there might be a chance.

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But the other thing that is also
enormously serious here is that we are

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talking about public procurement and we are
talking about the public lighting of the municipalities

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of the country where probably leveraged in
a network of money laundering then come to

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have a lot of contracts full of
probable irregularities. Yes, the issue of

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corruption also has to be on the
environment, because many thanks to the representative

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to the House, Carolina Giraldo,
whose denunciation can bring out a network of

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companies operating as fronts of leaders of
the so- called Gulf clan. This

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was today' s Colonel report.
Thank you very much.