The stone in the shoe of the mayor Rico Rincón

In the courthouse of the city of Neiva, Judge Promiscua Municipal de Tello with security control functions carried out yesterday the judicial hearings Preliminary proceedings against the mayor of Pitalito, Miguel Antonio Rico Rincon, for the murder of the lawyer Luis Gerardo Ochoa took place on April 6, 2017.

After legalizing the capture judge of the mayor, the prosecutor's section He has charged co-perpetrator charges of aggravated homicide as a determinant, in competition with the crime of manufacturing, trafficking or carrying firearms, which do not have been accepted by the suspect.

At the hearing, Rico Rincon was accompanied by his wife and the defense attorney. In the indictment, the prosecution has recounted how the evidence, witness statements and other evidence that directly engage Mayor Rico Rincón as the person who invented the murder of the l '. lawyer were obtained last Saturday in the city. of Bogotá by judicial order. Today will continue the hearing, in which the judge will determine if he dictates a measure of intramural insurance in prison, which was requested by the Office of the Prosecutor.

The fate of the Christian Church

The link of the Mayor of Pitalito in the investigation, has to do with the construction of housing project Ciudadela la Voz of Dios in this municipality, in which Rico Rincon had, according to the prosecutor's office, a marked personal interest, and that for the lawyer Luis Gerardo Ochoa it was a scam

The story moves towards the year 2016, when Nelson Argote and Luis Mario Colorado Rodas, pastors of the Christian Crusade Church The Voice of God that exists in Pitalito, decided to sell the land where they thought to build for their parishioners the citadel which would also be called La Voz de Dios, for which they had created the Foundation Center of Love and Training of Entrepreneurship, CAFEE.

They sold the lot to the construction company Asoginco Apartamentos SAS, whose owners were Mauricio Parra Rodríguez and Cesar Alberto Sierra, and who would be responsible for developing the project of Citadel It was formed into a chamber of commerce with a capital of 1 million pesos

One of the members of the Board of Directors of the Cafee Foundation, not satisfied with the situation, told the lawyer Luis Gerardo Ochoa, whom he was a personal friend, because I suspected that they were ripped off. The lawyer then began to collect the powers of the people of this Foundation to represent them before the prosecutor's office in order to initiate the respective complaint.

The Great Urban Project

Already for December of the year 2016, the project Ciudadela la Voz de Dios, and which makes an event in Pitalito as a great work of urban planning, is presented the presentation is Mayor Miguel Rico Rincón. He was there in the company of the owners of Asoginco SAS the legal representatives of the Cafee Foundation, the planning secretary of the time, Edgar Núñez, the politicians and even the governor of Huila, Julio González Villa. The investment would be more than 600 billion pesos.

Meanwhile, Luis Gerardo Ochoa begins to discover who are the owners of Asoginco. We learn then that Mauricio Parra was found guilty of trafficking, manufacturing and possession of narcotics and had just paid a sentence. This, too, apparently had links with the former group of FARC insurgents, and was for those days dealing with a senator of the Republic, named Name a decoration as a great man of the Republic. business.

The meeting with the mayor

The Public Ministry was able to establish that Mayor Rico Rincón quoted Luis Gerardo Ochoa as mayor, and in the presence of Edgar Núñez, secretary of planning, and the counselor At the legal level of the mayor's office, the Ochoa attorney showed them all the elements that he could gather about the complaint, and he left them a copy of each, that the Mayor threw in the trash.

Then, he told the Prosecutor, "then begins to make intimidating calls to Ochoa's lawyer," according to interviews with people close to him.

He also received watsap messages from a person claiming to be an alleged victim of the alleged scam of the citadel, and the appointment with the lawyer for April 6 to 6 evening hours in his office, in the building known as the Fifth House.

Murder

According to an eyewitness, a few minutes before the murder, the lawyer left his office and waved the young man with whom he had been summoned and brought him in. About 10 minutes later, a lawyer client came in and found him dead in his chair with gunshot wounds, immediately went out and gave notice.

Thanks to the cameras, the authorities capture the murderer Mauricio Murcia aka "El Duende" who was the one who shot against the humanity of Ochoa's lawyer. The subject admitted that he was the material author of the homicide, and designated Stiwar Sterling Santa Cruz alias "La Muerte". like the person who hired him.

He also indicated that Mauricio Ortiz Parra and Cesar Alberto Sierra Avellaneda million pesos for the commission of the crime Ochoa. The Office of the Prosecutor then requested the corresponding arrest warrants, captured them and laid charges of aggravated homicide and carrying firearms.

Protected Witness

The Prosecutor mentioned yesterday at the hearing that Cesar Alberto Sierra Avellaneda had decided to file an investigation, in which he indicated that the company Asoginco had arrived in Pitalito because for the year 2015, Mauricio Parra and he met Miguel Antonio Rico Rincón and he invited them to go to their municipality and invest there. He indicates that upon their arrival the mayor has shown them special attention for the project La Voz de Dios. Thus, he began to have a friendly relationship with Mauricio Parra and repeatedly he handed large sums of money to the mayor.

Sierra mentions that Mayor Rico had told them to meet several councilors of Pitalito, because he considered them they deserved an apartment in the citadel because they had collaborated a lot.

He said that when the Ochoa attorney started to inquire into the complaint, Rico Rincón was heard saying, "Why is not it dead and why does not it? did not he give? money to keep it quiet. "Caesar Sierra says that he did not agree because he admits that the reasons for Ochoa were legitimate

Sierra mentioned in the interrogation at parquet that in the accounts of the project of the citadel there were 17 places with a special code corresponding to Miguel Rico and his wife, his children and his close relatives. "When the last stage of the citadel of La Voz de Dios was projected, that is to say the commercial space, he thought he could sell them to a recognized supermarket chain, but that his partner Mauricio Parra was telling him that, "said the Prosecutor

Sierra Avellaneda also points out that the mayor has begun to take powers that were not his, such as those who should or should not be in the apartments, have more aversion to the lawyer, and once a said, "Hey, why this child will not die …, will not have anything to do?"

Cesar Sierra, is currently in the Prosecutor's bunker as a protected witness, because he has received death threats.

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