10,000 million pesos would be the annual profits of this gang that was at the service of the Organized Armed Group - GDO- La Inmaculada, in the departments of Risaralda, Quindío and Valle del Cauca.
Within the framework of the Ayacucho Campaign Plan, through a tactical search and control task, in inter-institutional coordination with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the department of Caldas, 17 search procedures were carried out on various properties in the departments of Risaralda, Quindío and Valle del Cauca, where 18 individuals were arrested by judicial order for the alleged crime of illegal exercise monopolistic activity, association to commit aggravated crimes and illicit enrichment.
In this military operation, the soldiers of the Field Artillery Battalion No. 8 were in charge of carrying out the search procedures, together with the Attorney General's Office, in the municipalities of Pereira, Risaralda, La Tebaida, Quindío, and Caicedonia and Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, in houses and places that were previously identified, thanks to intelligence work.
In this operation, 2 handguns, about 250 million pesos in cash, 209 Colombian citizenship cards, 12 Brazilian citizenship cards, 9 Mexican driver's licenses, 37 cell phones, 374 simcards, 6 computers, 84 invoices with logos of foreign companies, bills of exchange for 700 million pesos, registry forms for illegal games, illegal bets checkbooks and more than 58,000 illegal tickets and certificates were found by troops
The GDO Apolo would be at the service of the GDO La Inmaculada, through the payment of extortive fees known as vaccines, which led them to commit crimes in three departments with the sale of raffles, illegal gambling, an illegal activity that significantly hit the contributions to the health of Colombians.
Source: Press – National Army
