The band operated nationally. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, among the 10 captured are two members of the PNC, one of whom holds a high position in the General Directorate of Penitentiary Centers, although some sources claim that he is one of the four advisers that Osiris Luna has.
“This network of human traffickers charged between $ 5,000 and $ 11,000 to their victims, for deception and promises of illegal migration. Today, the capture of the 10 involved, including two members of the “No one is above the law.” With this tweet, accompanied by an organization chart of the criminal network, the Attorney General of the Republic reported on Tuesday on the capture of 10 members of an alleged gang of human traffickers whom they link to Edgar Vladimir Prat Ortiz.
Prat Ortiz, has the rank of inspector in the National Civil Police, according to the site Transparency Portal, He is the director of the Penitentiary School, that is to say, where the custodians of penal centers receive formation.
However, sources from this institution and the National Civil Police (PNC) claim that he is one of the closest advisers to the director of Penitentiary Centers, Osiris Luna.
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Today’s newspaper contacted Alejo Carbajal, head of penitentiary communications, to seek Luna’s opinion on the matter. Alejo stated that he was aware that Prado Ortiz no longer worked for Penitentiary Centers and that he had not been Luna’s advisor either. When he was shown that on the site Portal de Transparència appears a resume of Prat Ortiz indicating that the position is valid, Carbajal justified that this site was not updated.
However, 45 minutes later, the head of communications rectified his position by admitting that the officer was indeed head of the Penitentiary School: “Yes he was acting as director of the Penitentiary School what happens is that he is career police and was on duty commission at Penitentiary Centers. Reiterem was never an adviser, “he said.
Prat Ortiz, according to sources, was on a promotion course at the National Academy of Public Safety, where he was captured yesterday at 6:00 p.m.
Band structure presented by the Attorney General’s Office. Photo EDH / Courtesy FGR
According to the prosecution, the network would be charged for at least 15 cases of victims of human trafficking. The prosecution confiscated more than $ 12,000 from the prosecution. The gang even had an armored vehicle, as well as other luxury cars and real estate, the prosecution says.
As for Prat Ortiz, in the organization chart published by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, he is attributed the position of “negotiator”, although he does not detail the type of negotiations in which the police element was involved.
The official’s resume details that he is a lawyer and notary, competing for a Master’s degree in Criminology. And, among other things, it also highlights the Leadership for Law Enforcement Leadership course, taught by the International Academy for Law Enforcement (ILEA), which is the advanced training academy for law enforcement. to U.S. Department of State law enforcement professionals, according to www.roswell.ilea.state.gov
As work experience, he has been head of the Heritage Crimes Investigation Section in Santa Tecla and Sant Salvador and coordinator of the Security and Investigations Unit of the General Directorate of Intermediate Centers of the Ministry of Justice, as well as a long career as a researcher.
Along with Prat Ortiz, the Prosecutor’s Office also captured another police investigator whom he identifies as José Òscar Garcia Díaz.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has appointed José Rafael Martínez Escobar, alias Rafa, a 41-year-old man living in the canton of Saint Lucia, in the municipality of El Carme, in the department of Cuscatlán, as the head of the gang.
A year ago, another head of the General Directorate of Penitentiary Centers, near Osiris Luna, was exposed by Factum Magazine, as someone who had forged a degree in Legal Sciences to obtain the position and he claimed to be a lawyer for the Republic.
It was Luis de Jesús de O Tobar, who was the head of the office that issues the criminal record.