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Bogotá.- A Colombian judge sent today prison to Jesús Vargas Cuajiboy, aka "Reinel", who allegedly was responsible from detention of Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped in a border area last March and killed in in captivity .
At a hearing, held at the Cali (south-west) courthouse, Vargas Cuajiboy, who was captured yesterday in the Colombian municipality of Santander de Quilichao (southwest), did not go to court. did not accept the charges of aggravated kidnapping and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor, "Reinel" is the fourth in the line of command of the dissident group of the former FARC guerrilla group "Front Oliver Sinisterra", accused of kidnapping on March 26 and the murder of the journalist Javier Ortega, the photographer Paúl Rivas and the driver Efraín Segarra
The lawyer of relatives of the Ecuadorian team, Pedro Vaca, told to the journalists after the l '; audience that "some human sources have allowed to achieve the full identity of which, according to the Office of the Prosecutor, is the fourth commander of the structure alias" Guacho "."
We obviously hope that the investigations not only in one link of the criminal chain, but in the entire chain of material authors.According to him, the lawyer of Vargas Cuajiboy, Carlos Viveros, said that he would not appeal the judge's decision because he believes that it is "preferable wait with caution ". progress process. "
Now, it remains to logically wait for the process to progress, to see what conclusion is finally reached.These are high penalties, relatively, but we must wait for the process to progress," said Viveros.
Ortega, Rivas and Segarra were kidnapped when they reported to El Comercio newspaper in Quito on the security crisis in the border region.
A few days after being captured, the dissident led by "Guacho" the author of the kidnapping and on April 13 the Ecuadorian President, Lenin Moreno, confirmed the triple murder.
The bodies of journalists, buried in Quito on June 29, were found in jungle graves in the Colombian municipality of Tumaco, on the border with Ecuador.
Ricardo Rivas, brother of Paúl, told Efe yesterday that he hoped that the catch of Vargas Cuajiboy help clarify the case and some details can be known about the situation in which were the members of the press team.
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