The Colombian authorities arrested the elder Jose Arteag Ernandez on Saturday, also known as El Costoust, and which is considered one of those who are responsible for the attack committed a month ago against the presidential candidate of Miguel urbai.
Arteaga Ernandes was captured in a joint operation of the police and the prosecutor’s office in the city of Engiva, in the Bogota -city, in which the area of the models is part where Urist Turbi was seriously wounded with two shots in the head and one in the left leg on June 7.
The police and the prosecutor’s office will propose this Saturday a press conference to explain the details about the arrest that occurs after Eve was published by a red notice of Interpol against Arteaga Hernández, which is considered an intellectual author of the attack.
Director of the Columbia Police, General Carlos Fernando Triana, said on Friday about the notice of Interpol to find the whereabouts of El -Kostowono, and its capture occurred less than 24 hours.
Arteaga is accused of crimes of murder in aggravating circumstances in the degree of attempts, production, movement and use of firearms and the use of minors to commit crimes. El Kostawunho’s “pseudonym” would be responsible for encouraging and using a minor to try against the life of a presidential candidate, ”Tyana added.
Urista Turbai, 39 years old and the senator of the Democratic Center of the Right Party, was attacked on June 7, when he made a speech in front of a group of followers in Modeli Park, in his political activity for the 2026 presidential elections.
Since then, the politician remains in serious condition in the Santa -Fa Foundation in Bogota, where several operations were performed, the last this Friday.
The police previously arrested four people, including a child under the age of 15, who called a weapon against Urist Turgai, and those who are now adding Arteaga Ernandes considered a key object in the investigation and for which a reward of 300 million pesos (about 64,000 euros) was proposed.
