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Salvadoran Authorities Denounce Telephone Scam Ring Operating From a Colombian Prison

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Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador's Minister of Justice and Public Security, Gustavo Villatoro, denounced on Saturday a criminal network of telephone scams operating from a prison in Colombia that, he asserted, affects several Latin American countries. He called on Colombian authorities to restore order at the prison. Villatoro stated at a press conference—accompanied by Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado and Minister of National De…

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Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador's Minister of Justice and Public Security, Gustavo Villatoro, denounced on Saturday a criminal network of telephone scams operating from a prison in Colombia that, he asserted, affects several Latin American countries. He called on Colombian authorities to restore order at the prison. Villatoro stated at a press conference—accompanied by Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado and Minister of National De…

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This Saturday, the Security Cabinet of the Government of El Salvador gave a press conference to alert about a new form of scam that has been denounced by the population and to share the results that have been obtained through an investigation. Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro stated that through the investigation [...] The post Authorities clarify alert and urges the population not to fall into phone scams appeared first on Diario Digital Cro…

Day by Day News El Salvador – The Security Cabinet confirmed this Saturday that a transnational criminal organization, dedicated to telephone scams using false threats, is operating from a prison in Colombia. Salvadoran authorities detailed that the discovery was made possible after a coordinated investigation between the Ministry of Security, the Attorney General's Office (FGR), and the Ministry of National Defense. Security Minister Gustavo Vi…

El Salvador’s Security Cabinet warned of a new form of phone scam that simulates kidnappings. According to the Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, these threats are completely false and seek to generate fear to demand money from the victims and their families. Authorities confirmed that there is no physical risk or real kidnappings in the country. The modus operandi of these scams consists of summoning the victim to an isolated …

The Barrancabermeja authorities set the alarms on a new form of extortion that would be affecting people in search of employment. Offenders would be quoting false job interviews to then detain the victims and demand money from their relatives. According to Eduardo Ramírez Alipio, Secretary of Citizen Security, criminals contact people through alleged job offers and summon them in remote areas or on road corridors, especially on the road that con…

The officials who make up the Cabinet urged the Colombian authorities to take action on the matter. ON VIVO: https://www.youtube.com/live/MycrZtwpBDs?si=i44pPE9nnfoKYeCb EL SALVADOR. – This day the authorities that make up the Security Cabinet revealed a network of scams that operates in the country, threatening Salvadorans with kidnappings from Combita prison, located in Colombia. The Minister of Justice recounted the modus operandi of this gro…

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lanoticiasv.com broke the news in on Saturday, January 24, 2026.
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