Authorities issue Interpol red circular against alias' Matamba ': has arrest warrant in force in 196 countries

The scandal of the escape of Juan Larinson Castro Estupiñán, alias' Matamba ', continues to generate reactions and processes by the national authority. On this occasion, the Police reported that following the request made to the Interpol Central Office in Lyon (France), a red circular was issued against the aforementioned criminal. This document allows the accused criminal to have an active international arrest warrant in force in 196 countries.

By alias' Matamba 'the national authorities are offering a reward of 2 billion pesos. The now fugitive from justice has under his name crimes of kidnapping, torture, homicide in a protected person, forced displacement and concert to commit crime. In response to the news, the Director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, stated that “there is a joint work with the police forces of South America that are Colombia's partners in the fight against drug trafficking, in order to locate it.”

“The search is progressing with a special team of 60 investigators from the Anti-Narcotics Directorate, who had already captured this dangerous criminal in May last year when he was celebrating his birthday in Bucaramanga (...) with the liaison officer of the Colombian Police in Lyon, we have told him so that with Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Panama they are alert to the possible displacement of this criminal to those countries, we have also alerted the services of the border nations to this situation,” added the director general.

Last week, alias Matamba had an orange circular issued in his name. This appeal was lodged for the crime of escaping prisoners. The man, in facts that are still a matter of investigation, escaped in the early morning of March 18. He was imprisoned in the La Picota penitentiary in the south of Bogotá.

On the morning of Tuesday, March 22, a hearing was held against the guard of INPEC, Milton Libardo Jiménez Arboleda, a uniformed man accused of being a participant in 'Matamba'. The man did not accept the charges brought by the Prosecutor's Office against him. The delegate of the Attorney General's Office presented evidence that, according to him, showed how the prisoner was given time to escape. The guard, in a video recorded by the prison cameras, is seen leaving one of the cells while leaving the door open. Matamba leaves that place dressed in an official Inpec uniform.

The Prosecutor's Office maintained that, at midnight on Thursday, March 17, the official assumed control of the external guard and bars 1 and 2, a place that the criminal used to escape. The prosecutor explained that the escape action began at 12:56 last Thursday night, when Jimenez was serving as prison inspector. “He allowed the now-fugitive to go out and wear a uniform for official use of Inpec. Later, he allowed him to board a vehicle that was inside the prison,” said the accuser.

The official explained that Jiménez Arboleda used two of his subordinates to successfully complete the escape of “Matamba”. First, according to the investigation, he decided to send the dragonman who controlled the external guard to another point in the prison, while he assumed control of that post. “Their job was to supervise checkpoints and not assume a specific one,” the prosecutor said.

In addition, he radioed the assistant bachelor who was in charge of gate four, to go to the supply center to change his weapons. This guardhouse is close to the structure where “Matamba” came out and where you have the visual of all the movements that occur at the exit door.

“You lost that visual control while the auxiliary came down from the tower. That is the time for “Matamba” to board a vehicle inside the prison. You, abused your authority, order him to go to the armourillo so that he will leave his rifle and ask for a revolver,” he is heard to say during the indictment.

Before a 75th Municipal Criminal Judge with Guarantee Control Function in Bogotá, the Prosecutor's Office charged him with the charges of favoring aggravated escape and abuse of arbitrary and unjust authority.

The investigating body assures that the latter would have drawn up a plan to frame the auxiliary. “He is an 18-year-old bachelor who is doing his military service as an auxiliary bachelor, given that rank and a lack of induction in that position, which is used to get “Matamba” out inside a polarized vehicle and driven by a public servant of the prison without being requisitioned his vehicle,” he emphasizes.

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