The incident occurred in a rural area of the municipality of Acacías, on the way to Villavicencio, department of Meta. There, a man was contacted and kidnapped by the FARC dissidents, who were asking for a total of $28 million for his ransom.
According to the investigation, criminals from the ‘Marco Aurelio Buendía’ structure of the FARC dissidents contacted a public service transportation company. to supposedly take a family from El Diamante village, rural area of Acacías to Villavicencio.
A public service van left immediately towards the agreed point and, once The driver arrived at the site, several armed men approached him and after intimidating him and taking away his cell phone, they isolated him and began to threaten him.
After the kidnapping, the criminals began to call and write to the manager of the transport company to demand a millionaire sum of money in exchange for not attacking the life of its employee. With intimidating videos, according to the FFMM, the criminals pressured the businesswoman by giving them a short period of time since, if she did not agree to pay the money, they threatened to incinerate the truck with the driver inside.
“The Military Forces, in an inter-institutional manner with the Prosecutor’s Office, immediately deployed all their operational capabilities, techniques and investigations with the objective of locating as soon as possible the place where the victims and their kidnappers were,” said Colonel Gerson Rincón, Commander of the Army’s Seventh Brigade.
Hours later, the authorities organized a component of the Military Gaula Meta, who arrived at a place in the rural area of Acacías. There, they took by surprise the captors and rescued the humble driver, who was tied up, safe and sound.
In the event, two alleged members of the FARC dissidents were captured, while the victim was taken to the facilities of the Seventh Brigade of the National Army where, in the midst of tears and joy, he was reunited with his family, friends and co-workers. after this difficult moment.
