The W learned for the first time that the Recognition Room of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) formally began the investigation into the Padilla Parking and the third parties who financed the paramilitarism who appeared in the records of that AUC accounting center intervened in 1998 in Medellin, Antioquia, a few blocks from the Governor’s Office and the Mayor’s Office.
The magistrates, after analyzing various sources of information, have summoned a first person to testify regarding these facts: Jacinto Alberto Soto Toro ‘Lucas’, a former paramilitary extremely close to Carlos Castaño and his family, who in fact has been accused of being the financial head of that organization and was detained by the CTI inside the parking lot in 1998.
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It should be remembered that in that place, within the information that was recovered, analyzed by the Truth Commission, at least 481 people and companies were in the accounting lists found. Still It is not very clear why the investigations did not progress against many of these natural and legal persons.
In fact, ‘Lucas’ is the person who appears as the tenant of the parking lot with his signature stamped on the contract, although in a recent interview with La W, he said that They had forged his signature.
“According to versions given by other paramilitaries before the special process of Justice and Peace, of Parqueadero Padilla (from where the finances of the organization were managed with the leadership of alias ‘Lucas’) economic resources came out that financed this and other massacres“says the document known as La W.
In addition to the facts related to the “famous” parking lot, the magistrate also considered it necessary to question ‘Lucas’ because He has been linked to the planning and execution of the El Aro massacre in 1997.
“Considering then the knowledge that the witness may have in relation to the instruction carried out by this Courtroom in the Antioquia subcasethe relevance of summoning Mr. Jacinto Alberto Soto Toro for confidential testimony has been determined,” the JEP said.
The hearing will take place at the facilities of the transitional jurisdiction in Bogotá and will have the participation of the victims. The precise date is being formalized and will be known in the coming days.
