The judge for Permanent Attention of the National District, Jose Alejandro Vargas, has issued arrest warrants for forgery for two Colombians accused of heading an international drug trafficking and money laundering network. They were recently favored with a change in the coercive measures of preventive custody to a bail bond, travel restrictions and periodic presence at court.
Dispositions 1301-A-2013 and 1302-A-2013 were issued against Huber Oswaldo Buitrago Ruiz and Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca, who are still in prison. Prosecutor Sandra Castillo of the Forgeries Investigation Department requested the measure.
The District Attorney says that the Justice Department, by way of the Foreign Ministry, has learned that both have engaged in forgery of Venezuelan documents and were issued fake passports to enter the Dominican Republic for illegal ends. They stress that Huber Oswaldo Buirtago Ruiz, voluntarily, consciously, and absolutely freely, using documents such as the identity card (cedula) V 13.708.257, in the name of a Venezuelan citizen named Santiago Castro Sanchez, had the government of Venezuela issue a passport Number 055976330.
Before this, he had applied for a tourist visa at the Dominican consulate in Colombia, but it was denied, according to the certification number DEC-2012. This says that Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca, using the same modus operandi, passed himself off as a Venezuelan citizen and therefore the holder of the identification card 21561099 and obtained the fraudulent passport C1433577.
Regarding the execution of the release of the defendants, as a result of the bail bond that they were granted, the Special Prosecutor for Anti-Money Laundering, German Miranda Villalona, said that the problem is that they do not know the men’s real names.