Vote buying and selling network in Magdalena - Other Cities - Colombia

The candidate for the Senate for the Citizen Force movement, Rafael Alejandro Martínez, filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office for a series of electoral crimes, which he knows would be planned to be committed during the March 13 elections in the department of Magdalena .

According to the applicant, he has all the evidence that shows the planning of an alleged electoral fraud, fraudulent voting, favoring voting, conspiracy to commit a crime and corruption of the voter, which according to an investigation and corroborated in the territory, would be ready to be executed in favor of several candidates.

“We base ourselves on an investigation carried out by a journalist in Santa Marta, who determined that a total of 185 people, fully identified in the complaint, would be in charge of carrying out the fraud through the retention of identity cards; others operate with direct advances to the voter, purchase of votes, among other actions”, expressed Martínez.

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He also asked the authorities to verify the evidence presented in the shortest time possible and deprive those responsible of their liberty.

We have asked Dr. Iván Romero, director of the Prosecutor’s Office, to act, because if this materializes they are guilty, they are accomplices

The complaint details that the mechanics used by this network of buying and selling votes is aimed at altering the results of the E14 formats, to add more votes to the candidates who are part of this network of corruption.

According to Martínez’s version, the municipalities where the vote-buying network operates are Aracataca, Pedraza, Cerro de San Antonio, Zona Bananera, Zapayán, Pijiño del Carmen, Concordia, Ariguaní, Pivijay, Ciénaga, El Retén. , Nueva Granada, Puebloviejo and Santa Bárbara de Pinto, with their rural areas.

“In the elections of House and Senate In 2018, an atypical vote of between 40 and 100% of the vote by polling stations was detected in favor of a single candidate and his party, a behavior that was replicated in all the positions,” Martínez stressed.

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In the last security council, where the electoral problem was addressed, Fuerza Ciudadana exposed the evidence of collusion and political friendship between two municipal registrars in Magdalena, Ciénaga and El Retén, with several candidates for the Senate.

“We have asked the doctor Ivan Romero, Director of the Prosecutor’s Office, to act, because if this materializes, they are guilty, they are accomplices, because institutionally they are the ones who can avoid it,” said candidate Martínez.

In the criminal complaint, the member of the Citizen Force movement details the members of this structure, their modus operandi and for whom they work.

“We hope that the National Registry provide the guarantees for the electoral exercise of the next March 13 and that the Attorney General’s Office prosecute those who break the law and prevent the fraud they have orchestrated,” said the senate candidate.

Martinez also pointed out that in the department there is a direct link between the registrar’s office in the department of Magdalena, the special delegates of the district of Santa Marta and municipal delegates with political agents active in political campaigns.

ROGER URIEL
Special for WEATHER
SANTA MARTA

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Navy Engineer Pleads Guilty to Selling Submarine Secrets

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A Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty Monday to trying to pass information about American nuclear-powered warships to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who was actually an undercover FBI agent.

Jonathan Toebbe, 43, pleaded guilty in federal court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to a single count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data. The sentencing range agreed to by lawyers calls for a potential punishment between roughly 12 years and 17 years in prison.

Toebbe and his wife, Diana, were arrested in October after prosecutors said he abused his access to top-secret government information and repeatedly sold details about the design elements and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarines.

Toebbe acknowledged during the plea hearing to conspiring to pass classified information to a foreign government in exchange for money with the intent to “injure the United States.”

“Yes, your honor,” Toebbe said when asked if he considered himself guilty.

The FBI has said the scheme began in April 2020, when Jonathan Toebbe sent a package of Navy documents to a foreign government and wrote that he was interested in selling to that country operations manuals, performance reports and other sensitive information. That package was obtained by the FBI in December 2020 through its legal attaché office in the unspecified foreign country. That set off a monthslong undercover operation in which an agent posing as a representative of a foreign country made contact with Toebbe and agreed to pay thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for the information Toebbe was offering.

Diana Toebbe was accused of serving as a lookout at several prearranged “dead-drop” locations at which her husband deposited memory cards containing government secrets, concealing them in objects such as a chewing gum wrapper and a peanut butter sandwich. She has pleaded not guilty and the case against her remains pending.

The country to which Jonathan Toebbe was looking to sell the information has not been identified in court documents and was not disclosed in court during the plea hearing Monday.

Toebbe, who as part of his job had a top-secret security clearance, agreed as part of the plea deal to help federal officials with locating all classified information in his possession, as well as the roughly $100,000 in cryptocurrency that was paid to him by the FBI.

FBI agents who searched the couple’s Annapolis, Maryland, home found a trash bag of shredded documents, thousands of dollars in cash, valid children’s passports and a “go-bag” containing a USB flash drive and latex gloves.

Video: Álvaro Lemmon, alligator man selling backpacks in Santa Marta - Other Cities - Colombia

Álvaro Lemmon, the humorist known as ‘El hombre caimán’, who worked for 45 years on the program Happy Saturdays, today faces a difficult economic situation that has forced him to go out to sell products at traffic lights.

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The new activity that he carries out in Santa Marta to earn a living moved many people after a video went viral on social networks, where Lemmon is seen in the middle of the strenuous sun offering backpacks and CDs with his repertoire of humor.

I am jobless. What do you want me to do? I have to search for it in whatever

The person who recorded ‘El hombre gator’ was the influencer ‘Jimmy Humor’, who was impressed to see the veteran comedian living off the rummage.

The content creator stopped in the vehicle in which he was traveling and invited Álvaro Lemmon to get in, to invite him to eat and talk about his present.

“I am jobless. What do you want me to do? I have to search for it in whatever it is, ”said the humorist to Jimmy.

As they talked, Lemmon, obviously broken, covered his eyes as he couldn’t help but cry for the bad time facing its economy.

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The difficulties of the humorist

From the influencer, he received some suggestions that he should take advantage of his talent and recognition, so that he could generate income through his social networks.

Likewise, he promised to carry out a virtual campaign that would allow raising funds to help the comedian.

Álvaro Lemmon, in 2020, made known the difficulties he faced due to lack of employment and invited his followers to buy some videos of personalized greetings, funny songs, etc.

Everything seems to indicate that, in the last year, their living conditions have deteriorated to the point of going from television and the national stage to the streets to sell backpacks.

Roger Urieles
For THE WEATHER Santa Marta
@rogeruv

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