2024-07-31 14:34:48
Angel Valencia made a mea culpa for the case of Sandra Acevedo Riasco, as he acknowledged that “we had not detected her”, despite the existence of an Interpol alert and even a reward for her capture.
Angel Valencia, National Prosecutor, had words for the arrest of Sandra Milena Acevedo Riasco, the so-called Patron of Luxury of the El Sueño de Todos takeover in Puente Alto, about whom there was an Interpol alert as she was one of the most wanted Colombian criminals in Cali.
In an interview with 24 Horas, the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office explained that his arrest “demonstrates the importance of international cooperation. We are experiencing a regional problem. The operation of cross-border gangs is a regional problem.”
“More and more frequently, we could find ourselves operating from Chile with people wanted by other countries and vice versa. That is why our number of extraditions has been increasing, we have more relations with prosecutors,” he added.
However, Angel Valencia He made a mea culpa for the case of Sandra Acevedo Riasco, since he recognized that “we had not detected her”despite an Interpol alert and even a reward being offered for his capture.
“We just hadn’t detected it and we weren’t looking for it. This shows that our system of police collaboration and judicial cooperation still leaves much to be desired, and we still have a long way to go,” he said.
Sandra Acevedo, who was arrested during the El Sueño de Todos occupation, She was considered one of the leaders of the gang that charged “rent and common expenses” to its inhabitants. The woman, despite being wanted in her country, entered Chile legally in 2009 and has three companies associated with her name.
Regarding this case, Angel Valencia said that “the worrying situation is the seizure of land controlled by organized crime. Historically in Chile, these occupations were associated with popular groups that sought to use force to resolve their housing problem.”
“Today, unfortunately, what we have are many pockets of informal lots and land where a gang controls who comes and goes, decides who lives there and charges for it,” he said.