Charged Cuban Santería Santería contexts Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia · 2024

Ibagué: santería practitioners charged with extorting clients using disclosures from spiritist sessions

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Evidence status

Charged

Authority role

practitioners offering santería and esoteric ritual services

Organization

No organization assigned

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The ritual consultation itself was the extraction mechanism: the spiritist session was staged specifically to elicit confidential and intimate disclosures that were later weaponized for extortion, rather than being an incidental setting.

Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
Threatened spiritual consequence

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-05-29 · charges — extortion

Fiscalía General de la Nación (GAULA-Tolima), Colombia. Three people who recruited clients via social media offering santería and esoteric services were charged with extortion after using private information disclosed during 'sesiones espiritistas' to blackmail clients for 5–13 million pesos under threat of public exposure. The charges are allegations pending adjudication.

Documented coercion mechanisms

spiritist consultation staged to elicit intimate disclosures
blackmail under threat of public exposure

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting charging report 'Judicializados supuestos "brujos" que extorsionaban a sus clientes', Infobae Colombia (citing the Fiscalía / GAULA-Tolima), 29 May 2024.: Infobae, citing the prosecutor, reports the extortion charges and the use of staged spiritist sessions to obtain the material used to blackmail clients.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2024/05/29/judicializados-supuestos-brujos-que-extorsionaban-a-sus-clientes-por-golpe-cobraban-entre-5-y-13-millones-de-pesos/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: charging-report. SHA-256 ade4cd2a2659ed2fd2ae0677bd376139f1a44709a3a9c6449a2045bf576e8183
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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