He promised to hand over documents that would implicate senators, governors, and businessmen, but the agents had specific orders and no negotiations. As they handcuffed him, Aurelio made one last call from his personal phone.
No one knew who he called or what he said, but 30 minutes later his office was raided by unknown people who tried to take his safe.
The police arrived in time to arrest them. Inside the safe, they found what Aurelio called his life insurance.
Decades of documented corruption, videos of politicians receiving bribes, recordings of judges selling sentences, fraudulent contracts signed by prominent businessmen.
Aurelio had built an empire of secrets, but that empire was now collapsing around him.
In the penitentiary, Colonel Méndez received the judicial notification with a mixture of relief and anger.
“I knew it,” he murmured. “I knew that man was innocent.”
He ordered Ramiro Fuentes to be brought to his office. He had news for him. News that would change everything.” Gonzalo Fuentes was in his cell when the guard brought him the news.
