Four former FARC hostages confirmed millionaire sued the Colombian State.
Bogota, July 14 .- Four former congressmen who were kidnapped by the FARC for several years confirmed today the millions who have filed lawsuits against the Colombian state, which together exceed $ 15.3 million, for damages arising from captivity .
The news of these lawsuits, filed between April and May, jumped on Tuesday, the same day that the former hostage Ingrid Betancourt also desisted, after, sto credits, criticism received, the action of conciliation in which it requested more than 6.8 million of dollars of compensation to the Colombian State.
Attorney delegate administrative judicial Neiva (Huila, south), Francisco Lizcano, revealed on Tuesday the submission of claims by former Congresswoman Gloria Polanco, Jorge Eduardo Gechem Turbay, Orlando Beltran and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, who confirmed today that information., tera gold,
Polanco, abducted on July 26, 2001 along with her husband, Senator Jaime Lozada, two sons of the couple and 12 neighbors but by a commando of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to assault a building in downtown Neiva, who asked for an allowance is higher (about 6.7 million dollars).
On February 20, 2002, FARC was forced to land a plane on a, aion kinah, highway in Huila and kidnapped three occupants, including Senator Gechem Turbay, who aspires to be compensated with about 3.9 million dollars.
For his part, Beltran, kidnapped by FARC on August 28, 2001 on a farm owned in Huila, asking for nearly 4.2 million dollars.
These lawsuits seek to establish "the degree of responsibility of those who gave us any kind of security," Beltran explained today to local media.
Also kidnapped by the FARC on a highway in Huila on September 10, 2001, Gonzalez de Perdomo said today that seek "moral reparation" for damage caused to her and her family during his captivity, and therefore requires about $ 427,000.
According to Gonzalez de Perdomo, safety studies made before his abduction showed a "low risk", although she had repeatedly denounced the danger he was on the move by the department of Huila.
A former congressman was freed in January 2008 thanks to the mediation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which also resulted in the delivery in February of that year de Polanco, Beltran and Gechem.
In February, the former hostage Sigifredo Lopez also demanded that the Colombian State and aims to fix that, in his view, should be "with assets seized from the FARC."
Lopez, a former Member of the Assembly of Valle del Cauca department, was kidnapped in 2002, survived in captivity to the killing of 11 of his fellow hostages and was released in 2009.