Three victims had already paid more than five million pesos to the extortionists.
In the municipality of Mosquera in the department of Cundinamarca, soldiers of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Tolima, of the Sixth Brigade of the National Army, arrested two men who belonged to a gang that through the modality Uncle or Aunt, extorted the money of people. On this occasion there were three victims in the department of Tolima, who fell in their deceptions.
The timely denunciation by the victims, who received these calls where these individuals pretended to be nephews, saying that they had been detained by the Police, and that in exchange for not transferring them to a station, they had to pay a sum of money, modality in which three people fell in the department of Tolima, who sent the money, verifying hours later, that their relatives had not had any situation with the police. Therefore they filed the denunciation with the officials of the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Tolima.
The two individuals were put into custody of the Prosecutor's Office 19 sectional unit Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Tolima, for the crime of aggravated extortion.
The invitation of the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade of the National Army, is to denounce and not fall into false calls from unknown numbers and verify if the alleged individual is really the relative, by calling the number you know or someone close to that person. In this way, when verifying people can report in the toll-free line 147 of our component Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Tolima.
Source: Press - Fifth Division of the National Army
