The councilors of Montelíbano (Córdoba), Paul Duque, Manuel López and Anselmo Herrera spoke in relation to a video from the security cameras of the municipal council where they appear receiving money from Gabriel Street indicating that these are private businesses and that they have nothing to do with politics.
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They point out in a statement issued to the public that the video is from last February 17 and that it causes them concern and draws their attention that it is released a few days before an electoral process.
🚨#VIDEO The former mayor and councilor of Montelíbano (Córdoba), father of the current representative to the chamber of the Liberal party Andres Calle (who aspires again), was captured by the cameras of the municipal council distributing money to three councilors. For what is the money? pic.twitter.com/542hy5DLSS
“We will not lend ourselves to malicious interpretations and with political interest,” they say in the statement.
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Gabriel Calles is a former mayor and former councilor of Montelíbano, father of Andrés Calle, representative to the chamber for the Liberal Party.
Renowned merchants
They indicate that in addition to being council members, they are well-known merchants, professionals and entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector of Montelibano and the region.
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“In addition to the public service, we develop other licit and legal economic activities. That day it was agreed to receive the pending payment for a value of 8 million pesos, from a sale of cattle, a business that is usually carried out in cash, ”they say.the councilors in the statement.
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They affirm that everything was done without hiding anything, in front of the security cameras, in the presence of other councilors, employees and the public force itself, with all legality and transparency.
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A priest confronted a supposed impostor who was paid to give blessings.
A priest confronted an alleged impostor who was paid to give blessings.
Church announced that the alleged parish priest is not part of the clergy. She invited the faithful to denounce him.
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An alleged priest dressed in a cassock and who frequented some commercial establishments in downtown Cali to give blessings in exchange for money was surprised in the Obrero neighborhood.
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This was evidenced by a video that circulated on social networks in which a person who claimed to be a priest is seen. However, in the same place was a member of the neighborhood parish, who confronted him and exposed him.
Faced with this situation that had already been presented, the Archdiocese of Cali, through a statement, confirms that said person “He does not belong to the clergy of the Archdiocese of Cali nor has he been sent by the Cathedral or parishes of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Cali.”
“The actions carried out by this individual are done in a personal capacity and have no link with the San Pedro Apóstol Cathedral or the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cali.” Finally, he invites parishioners to denounce this type of person.
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They asked for from 30,000 pesos to 400,000 pesos.
They asked for from 30,000 pesos to 400,000 pesos.
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A non-commissioned officer and two National Police patrolmen were sent to jail after it was found that they were demanding high sums of money from truckers on a road between the municipalities of Copacabana and Barbosa, in the north of the Aburrá Valley.
“The investigators established that between January 2018 and September 2020, the uniformed officers requested money from the drivers of trucks loaded with wood in exchange for not demanding the paperwork required for the transport of this type of material. The events occurred on the North highway,” explained the director of the Medellín Section of the Prosecutor’s Office, Natalia Rendón.
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According to the investigations, the acts of corruption by the uniformed officers occurred between January 2018 and September 2020.
The illegal economic demands, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, ranged from 30,000 pesos to 400,000 pesos. and they were extended to drivers of private vehicles and motorcyclists who moved through the area.
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After the entire legal process, a criminal judge from the Girardota circuit (Antioquia) recently sentenced Mayor José Ignacio Arroyave Murillo for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime and concussion in a homogeneous and successive contest, who was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months in prison. , and the patrolmen Cristian Camilo Pérez Oyola and William Fernando Oyuela Duarte, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
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Bonaventurea district city with the most important port in southwestern Colombia, not only has problems with basic services, especially water, which still does not reach 400,000 Buenos Aires during the 24 hours of the day or rubbish that floats under the stilt houses.
The crisis reached the 150 firefighters for the entire district, who in a protest in the streets, demanded the payment of a debt of 400 million pesos to the Town hall of the town, since last year.
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Captain Guillermo Valencia, commander of the central barracks, said that the District Administration does not pay what corresponds to the relief agency from the money collected by the industry and commerce tax that is equivalent to the contribution of 10 percent by merchants.
“He pays us drop by drop and we have to be asking. That’s not enough for vehicle maintenance. We could buy more machinery or better equip the ambulance and other equipment,” said Captain Valencia.
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“The Mayor’s Office should send all the resources to the Fire Department account,” he said.
The District Administration reported that as of this week, the monies owed will begin to be disbursed.
“The financial situation of the Mayor’s Office affects everything and with Firefighters we have an agreement for the execution of the money,” said Mayor Víctor Vidal.
The president assured that some payments have been made and noted that firefighters are free to express their opinion.
A citizen denounced a form of theft at an ATM in the north of Barranquilla, when he was making a transaction and the device did not throw the sum of money required.
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The user approached the ATM located at Calle 72 with Carrera 48 to make a cash withdrawal. He started with the usual process and everything progressed normally.
However, something strange was about to happen: when he was about to receive the bills, the outbox did not deposit the money. The situation became worrying when the cashier notified him that “the transaction was successful”.
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Given what happened, the man reported the case to the authorities. Units of the Metropolitan Police of Barranquilla responded to the call and reviewed the incident, the procedure of which was recorded on video.
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When removing the strip from the ATM, they noticed that it was damaged. And, indeed, the banknotes were deposited, but they remained attached to the devicewhich prevented them from leaving normally.
In this sense, the authorities recommended reviewing the ATM before making any withdrawal, identifying irregularities and, if this happens, not withdrawing from the device and report it to the corresponding bank.
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Iran is not serious about wanting a prisoner exchange with the United States and instead appears to be seeking money as part of any deal to release four Americans labeled by the U.S. as hostages of Tehran, according to informed sources.
U.S. and Iranian officials have been trying to negotiate a potential rare exchange of prisoners since last April, when they began indirect talks through mediators in Vienna to try to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran, the U.S. and other world powers.
In recent years, Iranian officials have repeatedly said they want a full exchange of prisoners in which the U.S. would release all Iranian citizens whom they describe as unjustly detained for reasons such as violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh, speaking at a January 24 news conference, said Iran could reach “lasting” agreements on the prisoner and nuclear issues in a short time “if there is a will on the [U.S.] side.”
Neither Iran nor the U.S. has published lists of Iranians under U.S. detention and prosecution.
The eight Iranian non-U.S. citizens in U.S. detention or on supervised pretrial release for federal offenses. (Courtesy Tasnim, U.S. law enforcement agency, social media)
16 names
A VOA Persian review of U.S. Justice Department databases found 16 Iranians in U.S. detention or on supervised pretrial release for proven or alleged federal crimes, mostly related to long-running U.S.-Iran tensions. The number of Iranians detained in the U.S. for non-federal offenses is unknown.
In Iran, four Iranian American dual nationals are in detention or barred from leaving the country for alleged security offenses that the U.S. says were trumped up so that Tehran could use the Americans as bargaining chips. The Biden administration, like its predecessors, has pledged to work to bring them home.
The four are businessman Siamak Namazi, who was arrested in October 2015; his father and former U.N. official Baquer Namazi, who was detained in February 2016 and granted a medical furlough from prison in 2018 but barred from leaving Iran; Morad Tahbaz, an environmentalist who was arrested in January 2018; and businessman Emad Shargi, who has been detained since December 2020.
The 16 Iranians in U.S. detention or on supervised pretrial release for federal offenses consist of eight Iranian American dual nationals, four Iranian citizens with U.S. permanent residency, and four Iranian citizens with no legal status in the U.S.
Of the eight Iranian Americans, three are serving prison sentences for violating U.S. or international sanctions against Iran: Sadr Emad-Vaez, Hassan Ali Moshir-Fatemi and Reza Olangian. A fourth, Manssor Arbabsiar, is serving a prison sentence for conspiring with Iranian officials in a foiled plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. in 2011.
Three of the other Iranian Americans are charged with U.S. sanctions violations: Faezeh Faghihi and Niloufar “Nellie” Bahadorifar, who are on supervised pretrial release, and Kambiz Attar Kashani, who is in custody pending a detention hearing after his arrest in Chicago last month. The eighth, Erfan Salmanzadeh, is in custody and undergoing a psychiatric evaluation after being charged with possessing a destructive device that exploded at his home in Texas last year.
Of the four Iranian U.S. permanent residents, three are charged with U.S. sanctions violations: Amin Hasanzadeh and Farzeneh Modarresi, who are on supervised pretrial release, and Mohammad Faghihi, who is in pretrial detention. The fourth, political commentator Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, is on supervised pretrial release and charged with acting as an unregistered Iranian agent.
Of the four Iranians with no legal status in the U.S., Mehrdad Ansari is serving a prison sentence and Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani is on supervised pretrial release, both in U.S. sanctions violation cases; Milad Rezaei Kalantari is serving a prison sentence for conspiracy to sell stolen credit card information online, and Malek Mohammad Balouchzehi is in pretrial detention on charges of conspiring to sell heroin for distribution in the U.S.
Less interest than before
A source with knowledge of the issue told VOA that Iranian officials appear less interested or engaged in securing the release of Iranians currently jailed or prosecuted in the U.S. than they did when discussing previous cases. The source requested anonymity to avoid disrupting diplomacy related to the U.S.-Iran prisoner dispute.
Iran previously obtained the release of two of its citizens from U.S. detention as part of prisoner exchange agreements with the administration of Donald Trump, who preceded President Joe Biden.
In June 2020, Trump granted an early release to Iranian American medical doctor Matteo Taerri, also known as Majid Taheri, who served 16 months in prison for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran and U.S. banking laws. In exchange, Iran allowed U.S. Navy veteran Michael White to return home after detaining him for 20 months on security charges deemed bogus by the U.S.
In December 2019, Trump released Iranian scientist Masoud Soleimani, who had been detained and charged in another U.S. sanctions violation case. In return, Iran freed Chinese American historian Xiyue Wang from three years of imprisonment for what the U.S. said were false security charges. That prisoner swap happened in Zurich via Swiss mediation.
A second source — former U.S. diplomat Barry Rosen, who was held hostage in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution — told VOA that when he met with U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley and European officials in Vienna last month, he heard that Iran was looking for money in return for freeing the four Americans in its custody, rather than for the U.S. to release detained Iranians.
“The Iranian government doesn’t care about doing an exchange for their people,” Rosen said. “They think their people [detained in the U.S.] are failures and useless. Look, they want money. They are in dire straits economically and need it.”
Rosen, 77, met with the officials in Vienna while on a five-day hunger strike to press for a U.S.-Iran deal to free the four Americans and other Westerners of Iranian origin detained in Iran. He is a senior adviser to U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).
‘Good talking point’
UANI policy director Jason Brodsky said in a separate VOA interview that Iran’s pledge to seek the release of what it describes as its oppressed citizens in the U.S. is a “good talking point” for Tehran.
“But they won’t admit that their priority is the unfreezing of Iranian assets for regime preservation, because that doesn’t sell so well, publicly,” he said.
Brodsky said Iran also appears to believe it can ask the U.S. to pay a higher price than before for the release of the four detained Iranian Americans because Tehran does not recognize their dual nationality and sees them solely as Iranian criminals whose freedom Washington seeks. The two Americans released by Iran in 2019 and 2020 were not Iranian nationals.
“If the U.S. unfreezes Iranian assets in exchange for the release of the four American hostages, that would incentivize Iran to take more Americans and other Western nationals hostage in the future,” Brodsky said.
It is unclear what the U.S. would consider giving Iran in a deal to free the four Americans. When a VOA Persian reporter raised the issue with a senior State Department official in a Monday phone briefing, the official declined to go into details, citing the sensitivity of negotiations.
“For us, this is an absolute priority to get the four back home, and we will not do anything that could complicate either the return or the treatment that they are undergoing while in Iran,” the U.S. official said.
A 2019 FBI report said it is a “long-standing” U.S. policy not to pay ransoms to hostage takers.
Manny Pacquiao, boxing legend and presidential candidate in the Philippines for the elections next May, promised this Friday to promote the recovery of billions of dollars allegedly stolen from the State during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, whose son is the top favorite in the elections. elections.
During a forum with several presidential candidates, Pacquiao affirmed that the Presidential Commission for Good Government (PCGG in English), a body created to recover the illicit fortune of the Marcoses and their allies, will have the power to increase the 3,410 million dollars recovered to date. moment.
