For more than three years, hounds from the anti-corruption investigative group have been followed by 14 operators from the coffee, Armenian and Medellin areas who may be involved in a complicated process that has taken hundreds of hours to untangle a tangle, which points to a double Numbering colloquially referred to as "plaqueteo" (named according to the Spanish slangs. It is when people illegally change their plate/plaque that has the id numbers of every machine installing it in another machine) in casino machines, or a failure in the transfer of information between the extinct Etesa (organism that used to control the gambling industry before Coljuegos) once center of corruption and the current Coljuegos.
Rodrigo Velez Jara former president of Coljuegos, who was investigated by the Cajanal case, Diego Pérez, who is currently manager of the Bogotá Lottery; César Torres, who was the liquidator of Etesa; Carlos Enrique Fierro, member of the National Council of Games; And current legal counsel Federico Alfonso Torres, Fenibal Quintero (casino operator), Heiby Poveda, who was the legal adviser to Cristina Arango and the former president Cristina Arango have an arrest warrant or are already ordered by a criminal judge of Manizales. (READ SO: COLJUEGOS WAS QUOTED FOR SECOND TIME TO RESPOND FOR ACCUSATIONS)
Revised the records of control operations that occurred several years ago, it became clear that machines currently operating illegally in Santa Rosa de Cabal, Pereira, Belen de Umbria, Dosquebradas, Armenia and Medellin were registered in sealing documents made by Etesa. The question was not expected, and an entire operation was initiated, which touched the doors of importers, international manufacturers, and even the same entity to collect information on the acquisition of equipment, as well as the legal origin of import of the same and Establish the links between the 14 operators, the gaming machines and why Coljuegos had not denounced or realized this unusual situation given the rigorous control they exert on operators.
“The alarms are on because seven years ago the scandal that could be related to these events was uncovered and involving President Mery Luz Londoño, Senator Javier Cáceres, six Etesa inspectors, heads of the envigado office, paramilitaries and even the Doorman of the building that served as human mail”
The Twelve of the Gallows
With the detention, yesterday of a dozen people including public officials and several operators of casino machines, will begin the stage of charging charges and legalization of catches to continue with this episode that again recalls the governing body of the Gambling in Colombia.
