The dark discovery in the crime case in Bogotá of businessman Andrés Gustavo Aponte; hitmen erased key clue with blood and fire
They have already handed two lengthy weeks since a hitman dressed in a swimsuit and tie shot businessman Gustavo Andrés Aponte Fonnegra, 46, in the again, in what investigators describe as a legal operation of millimeter planning.
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In movies from safety cameras, it was recorded how the hitman obtained a warning name at the second in which Aponte and his bodyguard –former police officer Luis Gabriel Gutiérrez Garzón– They have been getting ready to depart the Bodytech health club in the unique space of La Cabrera. He took out the gun, approached and shot them at head and neck stage.
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The investigation into the motives and perpetrators of the crime is progressing at an excellent tempo below absolute confidentiality. However, EL TIEMPO established for the first time that one of these concerned in the hitman act was murdered.
Crime and black automotive
At this level on Carrera 7 and Calle 85, Gustavo Aponte and his escort have been murdered. Photo:Social networks
This was confirmed to EL TIEMPO by judicial sources near the case, who revealed to this newspaper one other piece of info that went unnoticed and is expounded to the earlier one.: “Everything indicates that the hitman did not arrive on the motorcycle but in a black car that was roaming the area.”
And he added that it has already been verified that the driver of that automobile, who knew the identification of the hitman and no less than two different folks concerned, was murdered.
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EL TIEMPO omits the identification in order to not hinder the investigation, which has clearly tried to be sabotaged. by the legal gang that carried out the crime of Aponte, a member of a famend household of businessmen in the rice, livestock and plastic sectors.
Camera positioned in the sector the place businessman Aponte was murdered. Photo:Private file
The best-known firm of the Aponte group is Agroindustrial Molino Sonora AP SAS, an organization created in 1987 and producer of the widespread Sonora Rice and one other grain that’s offered on the Coast: Pinillar.
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And the different is the Colombian Blowing and Injection Company Ecsi SAS, created in 1993 and devoted to the manufacturing of plastic objects, with operations in Atlántico, Cauca, Antioquia and Bogotá, and shoppers akin to Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Clorox, Unilever, Colanta and Johnson & Johnson.
The threats
Gustavo Andrés Aponte Fonnegra was murdered leaving a health club in the north of Bogotá. Photo:Social networks
The freshest info that was obtainable till now – revealed by this newspaper – is that residents of the La Cabrera space have been receiving threatening calls in order that they might not hand over the safety cameras the place the hitman’s face was recorded and a high-displacement bike that was ready for him at a close-by fuel station to flee alongside the seventh freeway to the south.
In reality, EL TIEMPO investigated and established {that a} grievance got here to Dijín from an individual who was instructed that he must “stick to the consequences” if he handed over the safety cameras.
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“Although it is clear that the hitman has received training, he made a beginner’s mistake and did not cover his face when committing the double homicide. Therefore, they tried without luck to block the delivery of the video cameras,” an investigator of the case instructed EL TIEMPO.
And he added that They have clear photos and even the escape route of the two criminals. Therefore, it’s not dominated out that the first captures might be recorded in the coming weeks.
Luis Gabriel Gutiérrez, escort of the Aponte businessman. Photo:Private file
Both the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police assessment greater than 100 hours of video from the cameras in the sector and it was discovered that the case It was handed over to the identical investigators of the assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay, headed by prosecutor Yanira Rocío Ochoa Ramírez, head of workplace 326, delegated to circuit judges.
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The skilled official went by way of the Superior Court of Cundinamarca and the Supreme Court of Justice.
The monitor in Casanare
Gustavo Andrés Aponte was dedicated to the Virgin and had simply been appointed minister of communion. Photo:Private file
And though kinfolk and buddies of Aponte Fontegra have been clear that he had not obtained loss of life threats.
And the bodyguard’s household spoke in the identical sense, requesting a assessment of his mobile phone.
The purpose: no less than one shut pal acknowledged that Aponte (consecrated to the Virgin of Fátima and sports activities) He expressed his concern as a result of crime had returned to sectors the place his household has necessary investments.
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Informed sources instructed EL TIEMPO that in Casanare, the place the Aponte They have rice crops, extortion and the presence of the mafia are the order of the day.
In reality, simply final December 15, Campo Elías Urrutia, a famend rice producer and half of the board of administrators of the National Federation of Rice Growers (Fedearroz), was murdered on his farm in Tauramena, Casanare.
Campo Elías Urrutia, famend rice farmer murdered in Casanare. Photo:Social networks
Urrutia Vargas was discovered lifeless on his farm with a number of gunshot wounds to his physique. One of the hypotheses that was dealt with at the moment was a doable tried theft of one of their properties.
At the time, the common supervisor of Fedearroz, Rafael Hernández Lozano, expressed his complete rejection of crime: “The seriousness of the terrible wave of insecurity that affects the Colombian countryside is reiterated once again; which on this occasion has taken the life of a recognized and prominent leader of the Federation in the department of Casanare”.
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The events occurred in the rural area of Tauramena when 4 armed men entered the Urrutia Vargas farm, located an hour and a half from the urban area, tied up and gagged some workers and after emptying the victims’ bank accounts, they shot the rice farmer.
And although police sources in the area said that it would not be organized crime, In Tauramena and its surroundings there is talk of drug traffickers who are using the grain to export cocaine.
Carlos Yorelmy Duarte Díaz, murdered by hitmen in the vicinity of the Prosecutor’s Office bunker. Photo:Social networks
In fact, the businessman who was killed last October in front of the Prosecutor’s Office bunker, Carlos Yorelmy Duarte Díaz claimed to be a rice farmer, but appears in a file for cocaine trafficking.
In fact, the boss appeared in a case in Argentina known as ‘narcoarroz’, because the alkaloid was mixed with the grain, which was supposedly going to be sent to Africa, under a humanitarian program.
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‘Third get together in good religion’
Carlos Duarte’s money laundering activities were in Argentina. Photo:Google Maps
He was even linked to a network associated with the purchase and sale of soccer players to hide a mega money laundering operation in Buenos Aires, which would be directed by old drug traffickers who were born from a structure linked to the extinct Norte del Valle cartel.
In the case of businessman Aponte, investigators are also reviewing a file against the son of an executive of one of the firms of the business group, for alleged money laundering.
In this regard, his defense assures that he is a third party in good faith who ended up accepting an investor in an aquaculture business who turned out to be demobilized from the ‘Centauros’ block of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and who has advised the ‘Gulf clan’.
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In addition, an old kidnapping against one of Aponte’s relatives in 1994 is verified.
As this newspaper recorded at the time, the plagiarism of Gustavo Aponte Rojas, grandfather of the murdered businessman, occurred at moments in which he left his ranch Rancho La Angostura, on the road that leads from Girardot to Agua de Dios.
Rancho la Angostura, on the Girardot – Agua de Dios road. Photo:Google Maps
According to records, the businessman arrived at his farm with a group of his private bodyguards, moving belongings from the ranch to the El Peñón de Girardot hotel, an establishment with which they were linked.
There was talk that it was a kidnapping executed by one of the FARC fronts that operated in Cundinamarca.
In any case, the motive or the hypothesis that Aponte’s crime is revenge against someone close to him is not ruled out, since several of the people who have been heard by the Prosecutor’s Office They agree that he was an impeccable human being, who even promoted a foundation for children of limited resources and older adults from depressed areas in the south of Bogotá.
Furthermore, he was a disciplined athlete and had just been ordained as extraordinary minister of holy communion in the Immaculate Conception church.
Mgr Alejandro Henao de Brigard, parish priest of that church, told EL TIEMPO that Aponte’s crime had not been due to political issues or a settling of accounts.
“He was a good person, who helped set up and collect markets and funds for the poor, often from his rice companies.“, the priest told EL TIEMPO.
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