Corte Suprema ordena investigar amenazas a testigos del caso Carlos Mattos

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At the WU, Colonel Daniel'
s report brings us this Monday report.

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Welcome, good morning, July.
This is the report Colonel The case of

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corrupt businessman Carlos Matos Barrero has a
development. The Supreme Court asks to investigate

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whether he was behind the threats to
two witnesses in his trial. Allegedly threatened

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are Dagoberto Rodríguez, Niño, a
senior officer of one of the judges who

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received silver from Matus, and Edwin
Fabián Macías Castañeda, who acted as contacts

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between Matos and one of the judges
bought. The investigation order of the highest

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ordinary court states that these two witnesses
began receiving threats as soon as possible.

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It was known that they were willing
to testify about the way Matos had bought

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from one of the judges who decided
in his favor. For this reason,

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the Court ordered that copies be certified
to the prosecutor' s office to investigate

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these threatening quotation marks of which they
were victims when they initiated dialogues with the

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investigating lens to collaborate with the administration
of justice and testify against the sentenced here,

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Judge Reinaldo Huertas, and which,
it was said, came from Carlos

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José Matos Barrero. So much for
the Supreme Court quote. The decision of

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the Supreme Court of Justice is in
the cassation sentence that orders the sentence to

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nine years in prison of Judge Reinaldo
Huertas, who was the tip of the

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ball to discover the entire criminal operation
of Carlos Matos. Nearly eight years ago

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he wrote a column called on wheels, which began with striking information to the

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dealer to cars that sell more vehicles. In western Bogotá, a judge of

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the Republic arrived with a tula full
of cash to buy a car. The

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purchase took place a week after that
judge, Reinaldo Huertas, ordered a precautionary

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measure in favor of Carlos Matos,
saying he was the only one authorized to

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sell cars and Honda and in Colombia. All this was happening in the middle

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of a multimillion dollar lawsuit between Matos
and the Korean multinational. The judge had

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solved everything at an unusual speed.
On March 15, Mato filed his lawsuit

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against Hyundai. The 18th admitted it. On April 6, he ordered the

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measure, notified it on April 11, and on April 12, he went

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to buy his mass with talk.
In cash, when he was investigating the

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decision quickly, Judge Huertas refused to
talk to me, but after the column

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was published, he explained here in
the wu that the silver came from his

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savings in various currencies including two pounds
sterling. Official income never matched the savings.

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The sentence of cassation issued by the
Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of

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Justo states in the last instance that
Huertas is guilty of bribery because he received

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between one thousand and one thousand two
hundred million pesos together. He is also

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held responsible for the offences of unlawful
use in communications networks and abusive access by

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a computer system, because the judge
participated in the electronic alteration of the distribution

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so that Matos' case could reach
his office. The judgement closes several aspects

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of the investigation, but two remain
pending, perhaps remaining forever. First,

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the participation of Alfonso Matos and Jorge
Matos, brother of the condemned Carlos Matos,

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in a meeting in Bucaramanga with the
judicial employee of Goberto Rodríguez, where

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he would inform them of the progress
of the lawsuit bought in the Sixth Civil

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Court of the Circuit of Bogotá.
There are the landing records of Mr Matos

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' private jet in Bucaramanga. All
sorts of evidence about that meeting, but

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nothing happened to that evidence. Second, the contract to pay a successful commission

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by Carlos Matos to Néstor Humberto Martínez' s law firm for a precautionary measure

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is requested by another judge, who
also received severance money. Néstor Humberto Martínez

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was the Attorney General of the Nation
when the scandal broke out. When I

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published that first column I was talking
about, the prosecution quickly issued a statement

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saying Comillas. Neither Dr Néstor Humberto
Martínez nor the law firm to which he

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was linked prior to his position as
Attorney General of the Nation, have had

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legal proceedings before the Circuit Court of
Bogotá, which is alluded to in the

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Sierra Comillas column. What the statement
did not say is that Néstor Humberto Martínez

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and his signature did act before another
court, that of Judge Ligia del Carmen

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Hernández, who admitted having received silver
of severance after the ruling and also did

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not mention the statement that they had
agreed on a successful commission that could reach

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four five million dollars if the office
granted him the precautionary measure that the judge

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actually granted him. Those two aspects
of the murder case should also be investigated.

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This was today' s colonel report. Thank you very much.