During 2021, the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group), who work 24 hours a day, have responded immediately to the denunciations made by the community through the national toll-free line 147, which has prevented paying $1,722,915,600 for extortion and $1,202,000,000 for kidnapping.
In addition, in several tactical missions, 1,227 individuals have been arrested for extortion, 187 for kidnapping and 884 for other crimes, dismantling 39 criminal structures in the country, thanks to coordinated and inter-institutional work with the Technical Investigation Corps of the Attorney General's Office and the National Police.
In a constant task of rapprochement with the civilians and with the aim of promoting activities designed to prevent becoming victims of kidnapping and extortion, the units of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) has strengthened the campaign I don't pay, I denounce, achieving up to date the training of 36,487,000 people, through 826 talks in radio stations, 1,908 training processes in enterprises, schools and trade sector, 817, 186 brochures distributed, 1,497 checkpoints, 44,177 installation of checkpoints and 1 652 activities of loudspeakers.
The purpose of these activities is that the communities receive information, in addition to the mission of these special groups on how to prevent being victims of the criminals who perpetrate extortion through intimidation against productive groups, merchants, shopkeepers, students and families in exchange for not attacking their lives, those of their loved ones or their businesses.
Thus, the forms of extortion most used in times of pandemic have been evidenced are Random prison or telephone calls made by prison inmates; sexting in which they make demands for money from victims in exchange for not publishing intimate images; false service in which they request a service and summon the victim in remote places and without a signal, to call their relatives or employers to ask for money for their release; and the Sicilian one in which they ask for money under threats.
Source: Press - Military Gaula
