Minuto30.com .- The Attorney General’s Office has issued a highly relevant statement, revealing a serious internal and national security crisis following an interception carried out on July 23, 2024 in Anorí (Antioquia).

In that operation, key electronic devices were seized from a caravan of FARC dissidents, including Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias Calarcaand other members of the self-styled General Staff.

After 16 months of custody and forensic analysis, the Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzónhas ordered the immediate intervention of the case, because recent verifications in Medellín revealed the existence of information of the “greatest severity” that was not being investigated.

Such material would implicate intelligence agents and members of the National Army in possible co-optation by dissidents, reveal threats to national security, and expose alleged links to the financing of the presidential campaign, forcing the Prosecutor’s Office to open new and sensitive lines of investigation.

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In the events recorded on July 23, 2024 in Anorí (Antioquia), when a caravan of members of the self-proclaimed General Staff of blocks and fronts of the FARC dissidents was intercepted at a military checkpoint, in which Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias Calarcá, Erlinson Echavarría Escobar, Juan Antonio Agudelo Salazar, Diana Carolina Rey Rodríguez, María Alejandra Ojeda Londoño, were traveling, Wenser Yosony Sábana Duque, alias Oliver and Édgar de Jesús Ortega, alias Firu, computers, telephones, hard drives and other electronic devices were seized.

Once the seized material was placed under chain of custody, it was duly legalized before the judges of the Republic and two forensic teams assigned to the DIJIN of the National Police were in charge of carrying out the process of extraction and analysis of the digital information, issuing five technical reports, the last of which was presented on June 26 to the specialized prosecutor against Criminal Organizations based in Medellín who has been in charge of the investigation into these events.

The most recent crossing and analysis of data was ordered by her on September 24, along with a wide array of investigative acts, to be validated as evidence before the Judiciary. To date, the large amount of information found continues to be verified.

The seized items have served to prosecute 28 dissidents from the 36th front of the FARC in Antioquia. In addition, three of the members of the caravan were prosecuted as follows: María Alejandra Ojeda Londoño and Wenser Yosony Sábana Duque, alias Oliver, for the crime of illegal possession of firearms, for which they accepted charges and were sentenced, currently serving a prison sentence. And Edgar de Jesús Ortega, alias Firu, for murder for which an indictment has already been filed and who also remains deprived of liberty.

It should be noted that Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias Calarcá, Erlinson Echavarría Escobar, Juan Antonio Agudelo Salazar and Diana Carolina Rey Rodríguez were not captured that day, because the arrest warrants issued against them and those that could be issued in the future were previously suspended, within the framework of the provisions contained in Law 2272 of 2022 and resolutions 0005 of January 16, 2024 and 0282. and 0283 of July 4 of the same year.

Regarding this investigation, led, as already mentioned, by a prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Criminal Organizations of Medellín, it must be clarified that neither the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, nor any other agency of the entity, including the Delegate against Organized Crime or the Specialized Directorate against Criminal Organizations, DECOC, hierarchical superiors of that official, received during the course of these 16 months, reports or copies of the information. collected, possible facts, actions or conduct punishable by its jurisdiction.

On the occasion of the verifications carried out today in Medellín, which reveal the existence of the most serious information in the seized devices and that is not the subject of the investigations, the Attorney General of the Nation, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, ordered the immediate intervention of the delegate against Organized Crime in the promotion of lines of investigation on possible co-option of intelligence agents and members of the National Army by the FARC dissidents, threats to national security, financing the presidential campaign, alliances between different illegal actors and creation of surveillance companies at the service of criminal structures.

For its part, the prosecutor’s office of the Specialized Directorate against Criminal Organizations of Medellín certified copies to the Unit of Delegated Prosecutors before the Supreme Court of Justice, so that the conduct of Army Brigadier General Juan Miguel Huertas Herrera, mentioned in the seized items, could be investigated.

Likewise, it cannot be ignored that it is the duty of the Attorney General’s Office to comply with the provisions of article 5 of Law 2272 of 2022 (Total Peace Law) on the lifting of arrest warrants against members-representatives of armed organizations so that they participate in the peace dialogue tables of the national Government, in the terms communicated at the end of August 2024 by the Constitutional Court, in ruling C-525.

Precisely, as a result of that ruling and to clear up the gaps in the interpretation of the law, the Attorney General issued Directive 003 of July 10, 2025, through which she specified, among other aspects, that even under the regime of suspension of arrest warrants on the occasion of peace talks, arrests will proceed in flagrante delicto with respect to crimes against humanity, crimes against international humanitarian law and for serious violations of human rights. In such events, the capture will be subject to judicial control and, if there is sufficient support, the formulation of charges will be made and the imposition of a security measure will be requested, as deemed appropriate by the prosecutor delegated in charge of each case.

It is pertinent to inform the public that the recovered devices, from which the information was extracted, have been in the custody of the DIJIN since their seizure, so it is alarming that their content had become publicly known, in clear violation of the principle of secrecy that governs criminal proceedings.

Finally, it should also be remembered that, without prejudice to the principles of unity of management and hierarchy, typical of the Attorney General of the Nation, the delegated prosecutors act with autonomy within the scope of their powers and that, as is appropriate in high-impact investigations, the information is managed under strict legal confidentiality protocols to protect the effectiveness of the actions and the integrity of the evidence.