Yasmín Eliana Serrada
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Article translated:
It appears that Yasmín Eliana Serrada was the contact for former senator Felix Salcedo Baldión to issue visas to migrants and leaked information about the investigations being carried out against the former official. Salcedo was arrested on March 13 by the Judicial Police Interpol, during operations taking place throughout the national territory. There are more than ten arrest warrants issued for this same crime. Serrada joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia in September 2012, assisting the Directorate of Economic, Social, and Environmental Affairs, from where she was promoted as Second Secretary of the Embassy of Colombia in Trinidad and Tobago, serving as the Chargé of Consular Functions.
Video transcript:
The fourth person captured during the operations against the network was Serrada, according to the authorities of the world-wide traffic of migrants. Serrada, fourth link, was the consul of Colombia in the Dominican Republic. And according to the prosecution, he was one of the contacts of Felix Salcedo Balbion to quickly carry out the process of visas to the migrants. In addition, according to the authorities, he was the one who was leaking information to Balbion to evade the authorities, even in an interception in which the Peruvian is heard and the former senator is shown as he warned that he was being investigated.
Call Interception:
I can't send more letters. Yes? No, I can't. I have a friend in the ministry. And he said I'm going to get in there. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I don't know what happened, but they are shooting at me from there. I don't want to have any problem. I don't want to have any problem.
The consul was captured in Bogota.