Habla el ‘narcochofer’ Manuel Castañeda: dice que fiscales lo invitaron a callarse

0:00 At the WU, Colonel Daniel' s report. We are now going to the National Protection Unit because Daniel Julio, well, good morning and this is the Colonel report. You know the National Protection Unit has been dragging suspicions of corruption. For years. The institution that conducts security studies, assigns armed carlos and bodyguards to threatened persons, has been questioned for favoring corrupt recruitment practices and also because UNP vehicles have been used in drug trafficking operations. The struggle for the depuration of ONP has been a concern of the current director, Augusto Rodríguez.

0:46 He himself has denounced that criminal practices persist in the entity. One of the most frequent cases occurred in the year two thousand twenty- two, a UNP truck was searched by the police in the camp. In the inspection they found one hundred and sixty- eight packages of cocaine, of which they call panels. They even say they were many more, but the cops who did the operation or some of them took a piece of the drug. At the wheel of that truck was Manuel Antonio Castañeda, a former national police deputy who from that moment began to be called the narco chauffeur. The truck loaded with cocaine was assigned to the security scheme of the former deputy director of the good EP Ronald Rodríguez, a former DAS agent who went from protector protected by those rare things that happen in that entity. He' s a civil servant.

1:42 I' m sure he had lent the truck to the narco driver in good faith, as if someone could lend something that wasn' t his own, but from the state or hired by the state to provide protection and not to do favors, even if they were legal that they weren' t. Anyway, the Cauca episode was the first in a series of events that allegedly involve in this network of corruption the president of one of the unions of the np named Wilson, Debia, about which Mr Castañeda, the so- called narco driver, declared and claims to have compromising audios and photographs. But that' s not all. Mr Castañeda, the narco- driver, also confessed that he participated in the escape plan of drug lord Juan Larison Castro, alias Matamba, who escaped from the pillory disguised as a guardian, said that in the plan to favor the escape of Matamba, in addition to members of the Gulf Clan mafia, national police officers participated, including Captain Luis Eduardo Duque Casas, who was captured. According to his version, narco Chofer also mentioned other senior officers, including generals, but the prosecution did not want to hear about this.

3:01 The prosecution denied him last week at the beginning of the opportunity by darco driver saying that the information he has delivered is not enough to hit. Criminal organizations technically declare it. That principle of opportunity had been suspended and they were prepared to re- evaluate it. If Mr Castañeda delivers more information at this time from his place of detention, he communicates with us. Manuel Antonio Castañeda, nicknamed the narco chauffeur, Mr Castañeda. Good morning, well, good morning to all, Mr Castañeda, to what do you attribute the decision of the Taxation not to grant you the principle of opportunity? Well, Daniel, really, because for everyone as well as for me as the proxy, it was really something surprising, because, then, we did not expect a decision of those, since since August, on 10 August last year, the issue was traced to the beginning of opportunity and on 3 December last year they manifest by a writing the evolution of the principle of opportunity had passed through the case to the fourth and fifth and according to the prosecution. This development is being made because, therefore, insufficient information has been provided to dismantle criminal gangs, which is therefore a matter of concern. Daniel, because, well, I ' ve given a lot of information. Apart from the arrests that have been made, I have delivered concrete things that are quite important and relevant in which there are high- ranking national police personnel that we are talking about in the

4:38 Matamo case, we are talking about corruption, good EP and other factors of criminal acts. Mr Castañeda, we are going through parts which people with their own names are involved in corrupt behaviors in the national protection unit. We were interrupted by your call. You know that Mr Castañeda is in prison, he ' s calling with permission from the prison authorities from a prison phone and we ' ll see at any moment we' ll return this call. But it is supremely important because this man, who says that he says a committee of the Public Prosecutor' s Office that is collaborating enough, delivered a report of eighty- four pages in which he gives in detail information, recordings, photographs.

5:31 Finally, we asked you, Mr Castañeda, which people with their own names are involved in corrupt behaviors in the National Protection Unit, as we have the case of trade unionist Wilson Devia. There' s the issue of Ronald Rodriguez, because he' s already captured. We have certain escorts from the unit as is Juan Pablo Rodríguez Ortiz, who he was at the time, because or I don' t know if he still does it to Wilson Devia, who was the person who linked me to Wilson de Vida for the issue of renting schemes, and we have other people who are still linked in favor of criminal gangs. They went to work in the national protection unit, as Mr How ere Onis said there was Alexander, sir How was the scheme of the operation of the scheme rental system at the UNP initially, because I know that Wilson of life through. Juan Pablo Ortiz, who is the escort of the unit that relates me to the i, presents me as the president of the unions of the EP Bun. That was a meeting that took place in Ayuelo near his house to his apartment. And so, because of some threats that I had for a person who is also captured, who calls himself the Mexican alias, I' m a forty of target squares, because I have

7:01 some threats and because of that, because I' m looking for an implementation of a security scheme. But since I do not meet the requirements, because Juan Pablo makes me the bridge with Wilson Devia and this person manifests that he has the power, since he is president of the unions, to be able to help me to assign a protection scheme initially, because he starts by charging 200 million pesos for the allocation of a scheme that was a armored van and two units of protection of the good EP with his armament and a fuel quota that they give according to the vehicles like this factor, because it was too then reached a subsequent agreement of a monthly rent that was seven million pesos, that was the initial treatment that we started with Wilson Debia and Juan Pablo Ortiz and the other members of the scheme. At that time, Mr Casteñada, how you pay those seven million pesos and what concrete evidence you have about the alleged crimes of the president of or the trade unions of ONP, Wilson Dévil.

8:03 These payments were initially made always the intermediary has been Juan Pablo Ortiz. The money was given to John Paul and in his absence, some appropriations were made to the same account the house of Wilson Devia and others were made in the name of the wife of o. The husband, the sentimental couple of Juan Pablo Ortiz. You, in addition to this corruption, UNP has revealed that Mr Debia was involved in road piracy robberies and that products of those robberies were stored and that you have proof of how they moved the proceeds of those robberies. How so, Mr Castaña, these evidences are in the hands of the prosecution. We are talking about the fact that after the two thousand and nineteen that is, the subject of the rental of this scheme came to fruition, since a trust was already generated and I was fined as a stronger friendship with Debia. And there was already confidence in certain criminal activities. I' m cool like that. And Wilson, because already as there was more confidence, as I just said, he had his companions of zt and that they had been previously the das himself may manifest that he could use his companions to make false raids and even a merchandise that was smuggled that had been stolen.

9:28 It is kept in his apartment in model, in not even in his apartment, in that of his wife, Marisol Tontes. Of that, there was evidence, photographs, and we are waiting for the same prosecution to advance in that, because at the moment there has not even been any progress in an interrogation regarding that. Well, let' s go now to the matam case in addition to Captain Luis Eduardo Duque. What are the officers of the national police involved in the escape of this capo, because the case of the Tamba we have concerning the captures, which is of alias. The horseman Edgar Molevar is bird alias bird is indeed the captain and there are other catches, as they surprise one who have not been made as they are initially, as the driver of the same captain who participated driving the official vehicle on the day of the escape. We have some evidence that was given to the same prosecution for some activities that they put me to do They literally used me the same police and the same prosecution When the same idea was brought to the attention of this whole situation, they put me to do certain activities I called to infiltrate their gang and get more information out of those who had participated in the escape.

10:43 There are audios of an hour almost two hours approximately that some recordings were made and there we are talking about too many people from the same police, as are Lieutenant Colonel Telles, who is the current commander of Gaula Bogotá. Yes, some Colonels are also mentioned that at the time it was General Morillo who was the director of the Digin, that they talk about some criminal acts they committed with them in Ibabia and when he was Commander Iwague. We are talking about the General of the Dijin, that Londoño Portela, who was also director and that, according to Edgar Monlevar, because they passed money quotas to him for certain elective activities that they did in the same audios. It is referenced to that which was exactly, for example, the participation of Colonel Carlos Eduardo Telles, who remains the Gaula commander of the police in Bogotá in that escape.

11:43 According to the evidence that you have, because according to what he says the same captain houses in the audio, because the colonel was the one who gave viability to him in order to be able to grant the subject of the vehicle with a Marshal l n Ons plan, as he said of his marchal plans Son as to justify the displacements from one municipality to another or department to another. And that was the colonel' s participation as such to justify and back the captain in that displacement. But who was watching for everything that night, because he was the captain, but he was supported by Colonel Tellis. Well, you just appointed a retired general who held a very high office.

12:28 He was director of the origin of General Fernando Murillo and now I think he ' s going to be the security adviser of fede won, or is he already the security adviser of sedegante? What was the participation that you knew that this High Officer had, presumably the Crime Commission, because here very, very rare things happened in that when they are made aware of the idea of the facts and later to the Fica, the prosecutor Juan Pablo Fajardo Lanza becomes aware and how there is a special group of the let who works with her at that time for the recapture of Matamba. I' m being interviewed by General Murillo. It is supposed that for a matter of transparency and the General in turn assigns me a colonel of anti- narcotics so that, supposedly, the information or what I am going to say does not leak. It turns out that among those acts that they put me to follow up and coordinated activities with themselves. In those recordings that I collect, I made Edgar himself and the same captain in the audios. In the recordings, they say that when he was a colonel, he had an attack or something, that, for the same reason, he had his artificial intestines and that Colonel Murillo was the one who gave them the free way to commit thefts on the cigarette tracks, that that was a very good business, that they provided them with more than the same drug. There they refer to Colonel Murillo, who at the time, since he was already general and director of the AU, I said and what

14:03 is the participation of General Londoño Portela in these alleged illegals, even exactly as the general had been director of the Digin Londoño Portela that even in the same audio I say to Edgar lego himself and consciences of life, because when I was a police officer, he was literally my godfather what is called the interior of the institutions. Then he tells me to see the coincidences of life. I didn' t know he was part of the organization. Let' s call it that because they gave him quotas for clearing certain warrants within this organization that they had. That' s basically like the function created by General Londoño Portelan said by Edgar Molevar himself. Good for the various cases that cross yours.

14:52 You have understood yourself with several prosecutors. A moment ago he spoke, for example, of the mention of a prosecutor named Juan Pablo Fajardo Lanza, who is in charge of investigating the escape of matamba. What happened when the names of important police officers and members of the Prosecutor' s Office of Valle del Cauca allegedly involved in corruption cases began to float. It turns out that initially, because they take me to the bunker, supposedly for safety so that they don' t leak and don' t see that I' m the formal source in the case of the matamba escape. Initially, because I inform this prosecutor of all the facts that are happening, and I even inform him of the people who own the merchandise for which they captured me nothing. I mean cocaine, I mention it, I provide you with some supports, evidence of photographs of criminal acts being made. But this prosecutor, because somehow he tells me that we do not focus on the issue of drug trafficking, but on the issue of the escape of matamba, because, because those are things that are going to hurt me and that I am going to pack up more on that issue. So that we do not refer to these people and leave them isolated and focus more on the issue of escape, which is something that you are curious about at the moment, because, because all the cases that we have been hearing within the prosecution are similar that in a certain way, because it is as if the prosecution wanted certain gangs not to be dismantled because

16:26 they have some interests within the same entity. Let' s be clear, Mr Castañeda, you received the insinuation, the instruction veiled from shutting up when you named important people from the prosecution. Of course, sir, and there ' s the weirdest thing about that moment is that that very day I give the statements in the bunker to this prosecutor in the morning, on the same evening, the owners of the merchandise, calling specifically a person named Luis Carlos or who is told in the middle that they know each other and how we moved the monkey. This person quotes me outside Bogotá, because, without knowing myself, what this date was for. But or surprise that when I came to the bomb in the company of my cousin, Rafael Velandia, who was also captured in drug trafficking issues in an episode Pereira, because he was already there and there was this person named Luis Carlos, he was there in the bomb with a vehicle when I arrived, because obviously I noticed as a different reaction from them towards me. And yet, they make me ride a vehicle, a toyota. There is light and inside that toyota is a person to whom we mention as JJ, who is obviously already fully identified with the prosecution and have given up his supports. And this person had a copy of the D A' s folder of what I had said, of the testimonies I

18:00 had given the Hollywood reaction and, in fact, that same day, that same day, exactly if Daniel, then this person takes my folder. I basically, because that was true, that was my signature and obviously, that was what I was saying and where I was mentioning them. But this person, then, tells me how it is possible that I am going to miss them that one thing is that I sell to the subject of the people who participated in the escape from Matamba, but how I will sell them is to them that they are untouchable. So, then, my reaction at that time, because I feared for my life, was, obviously, to refuse and deny myself in the face of this situation that it was not and that it was not my firm and that it was false. Yes, I have to clarify Daniel that for this there are supports and there is evidence of everything I am saying that they bear that this is true, because, because, as many have said, I am supposedly a liar of all the testimonies I have given and all the things I have contributed. Then I want to clarify that there are supports, my reactions, well, obviously, among all that topic that happened Daniel, because specifically, because they let me go, but literally and diplomatically they make me a threat, that quiet, that nothing is going to happen, that I take the route to my house, that nothing is going to happen. Because they don' t want to attack my family, so they won' t do anything. Of that, obviously, they are untouchable. I don' t know why they said it, if it was because of the fact that the prosecution itself, because it was covering them up, is covering them up. Then, as I was coming, obviously, in coordination with General Murillo, I informed General Murillo that very night that it

19:30 was not going to be more acts of intelligence call and I was cool. So, because it was literally what I had to do, because for them more members will arrive on the subject of the matamba escape. It was because of all the activities that they put me to do without me having a legal support in which I would rely to do all these things. Mr Castañeda, within the officials who appeared at that time there are people you understood close to the current Attorney General in charge of Marta Mancera. You can repeat it to me in what a pity. Within the persons of the Prosecutor' s Office that you mentioned or whose names came out in the course of these leaderships and from whom you received the insinuation of not speaking, there are people close to the current Attorney General of the Nation Marta Mancera, because we have a topic and that is the prosecutor of the Pereira case, of drug trafficking of my cousin, that is the prosecutor Jaime Ocampo, who I also heard through the media, that it is related to a subject of Dr Mancera, in the case of good fortune, of the issue of cabaca. I don' t know how close they are, or if they have some differences, but I also understand that the prosecutor Juan Pablo Fajardo, because he is close to them and there is a public prosecutor named Troche, who was the prosecutor who initialized in the rapprochements with the prosecution, hinted that everything that was happening had been

21:07 the fault of the same dea no more of them. Well, thank you very much to Mr Manuel Antonio Castañeda for the information that this man named the narco chauffeur has, must be seriously evaluated by the justice system. What he says must be demonstrated or denied within a serious, independent investigation and not invited to keep some silences and then deny him the primacy of opportunity. This was Colonel' s report today. Thank you very much.