Thanks to counterintelligence information, it was possible to capture a transnational organization that perpetrated smuggling of migrants. This organization with false public and private documents facilitated the illegal transit from Colombia to Europe and the United States.
Troops of the Brigade 13 and the Counterintelligence Command of the National Army, in an interagency operation with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Attorney General's Office, Migration Colombia and the Diplomatic Security Service of the United States Embassy, dismantled an organization of 13 people, including public servants, intermediaries and forgers of documents, that were in charge of the alleged sale of false identities to foreign citizens, mostly from Venezuela, China, Mexico and Cuba, among others.
According to the investigations, this network of document trafficking for migrants operated in the cities of Bogotá and Ibagué, facilitating the irregular stay of foreigners, with the issuance of visas and passports to destinations in different countries of Europe, as well as the States United. The payments for these procedures could range from 5 to 30 million pesos, depending on the complexity.
In the investigations determined that the criminal organization deceived officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Migration Colombia. In the same way, it counted on public officials who conducted the administrative procedures, issuing safe-conduct without complying with the legal requirements.
The 13 people are said to coordinate, with the obtaining of false public or private documents, the link who was in charge of looking for the foreigners, especially Chinese, to obtain the Colombian visa.
The individuals must face charges for crimes of conspiracy to commit crimes, smuggling of migrants, ideological falsehood, falsification in public documents and prevarication and abusive access to computer systems.
Source: Thirteenth Brigade - National Army
