Police officers accompanied by the Carchi Prosecutor’s Office carried out several raids to apprehend the members of this network that is being investigated.
Tulcan
A police operation carried out in the early morning of this Monday, November 29, in Tulcán, in front of Colombia, managed to dismantle an alleged gang made up of 16 national and foreign citizens, which was allegedly dedicated to human trafficking.
Police officers accompanied by the Carchi Prosecutor’s Office carried out several raids to apprehend the members of this network that has been under investigation for three months.
The first information indicates that those investigated used second and third order roads, trails, picas and the Carchi River to mobilize migrants from Haiti and African and Asian countries from Ecuadorian territory to Colombia, in exchange for payment of money.
It is presumed that this organization carried out these activities outside the law with Colombian criminal groups, which used the facade of Colombian irregular groups to generate fear and terror in the border strip of the neighboring country, in front of the capital of Carche.
In the Colombian border towns of Santa Fe, Carchi and Carlosama, among others, immigrants coming from Brazil and Peru were received, and then transported to Ipiales and from there to the municipality of Necoclí, in the Uraba Atioqueño, a place used to direct them. towards the United States.
Richard Karolis, commander of the Carchi Police Subzone, said that the work of Interpol, Judicial Police and Investigative Police carried out over three months resulted in the arrest of nine Ecuadorians and seven Venezuelans.
During the operation, 15 homes were raided and 15 cell phones, credit cards, identification documents and cash, which they used to commit crimes on the Colombian-Ecuadorian border, were immobilized.
Colombian police sources reported weeks ago that this international criminal group operates outside the land terminals of Ipiales and Tulcán, where they receive and deliver foreigners. The criminal cell charged between $ 100 and $ 200 for each migrant.
Every day it is estimated that more than 100 foreigners arrive who receive accommodation, food and a telephone chip in exchange.
In vehicles and vans with private plates they are transported between the two countries, many would have been abandoned at border crossings or even robbed, according to a local police investigator.
Karolys reported that those apprehended would be part of the largest criminal organization in Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua, which violates the borders of Colombia, Peru and Chile, where they have left several fatalities as a result of their actions. (I)
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