Lawyer Sanctioned Related to Toga and Hemophilia Cartels

In the last few hours, lawyer Leonardo Luis Pinilla Gómez, better known as' Porcino ', was suspended for the next three years by the Judicial Discipline Commission for acts of corruption in cases known as the' hemophilia cartel 'and the 'toga cartel'. In addition, the man must pay a fine of ten statutory minimum wages.

For the commission, 'Porcino' used his position as a lawyer to participate in the diversion of money from royalties, generating cost overruns in health treatments in the department of Córdoba. His work would have consisted of events that also involved prosecutor Daniel Díaz, who had in his hands the investigation of the corruption case and allowed himself to be bribed by those involved.

“In the exercise of the profession he participated in acts of corruption involving the prosecutor who was in charge of the criminal investigation of the process called the 'hemophilia cartel”, the document presented by the Judicial Discipline Commission reads.

Pinilla was one of those responsible, within the network of corruption that also linked former anti-corruption prosecutor Luis Gustavo Moreno and former Senator Musa Abraham Besaile, to give bribes and gifts so that the Prosecutor's Office would not investigate its clients for the crimes. For example, 'Porcino' paid room and board expenses for the official when he traveled to Córdoba to carry out the respective investigative tasks, he also offered him a large sum of money for taking his agent away from the case.

Guillermo José Pérez Ardila, then legal representative of the IPS 'United for their Welfare', and José Jaime Pareja Alemán, Secretary of Health of Córdoba, who, according to the entity, helped “in the delivery of $50,000,000 to the prosecutor, promising him the employment location of his partner Neida Plazas, so that it would not be linked”.

The judicial process against Leonardo Pinilla came after the proof of copies ordered by a judge of the Judicial Disciplinary Chamber of the Bogotá Sectional Council of the Judiciary, who was investigating precisely the money that Luis Gustavo Moreno and Musa Abraham Besaile moved.

All the acts of corruption in Cordoba occurred during the administration of Alejandro Lyons and Edwin Besaile, and in the first instance lawyer 'Porcino' acknowledged that as a representative of the above-mentioned ones he offered the large sum of money to the prosecutor to benefit former Senator Besaile.

Now, the Judicial Discipline Commission reached the determination to suspend Pinilla because they concluded that the lawyer “was disloyal to the administration of justice and the purposes of the State, using actions outside the law, to ingratiate himself and obtain the consent of the prosecutor responsible for resolving the matter in favor of his customer”.

The sanction was announced through a presentation by Judge Carlos Arturo Ramírez Vásquez, in which it was detailed that for the commission the lawyer had committed two offenses described in article 33 of Law 1123 of 2007.And they added that “to direct all their actions towards the defraud of the administration of justice, thus going through all the guiding verbs that inform it, from advice, sponsorship, to intervention in fraudulent acts, in this case, seeking to avoid linking Mr. José Jaime Pareja to the criminal proceedings, through the delivery of large sums of money and the improper offer of public office”.

It should be recalled that this news came while lawyer 'Porcino' is serving his sentence for his participation in the corruption cartels, which occurred in 2020, when he went to prison for the crime of concussion and had to pay a fine of more than $29 million.

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