66 125(94) On February 6, 2004, the disciplinary ruling (infra para. 125(98) and 125(100)) against Army Lieutenant Everardo Bolaños Galindo and First Corporal Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona, for collaboration and omission in relation to the events in El Aro, was transferred to the criminal investigation. On December 16, 2004, these individuals were summoned by the criminal proceedings. On January 11, 2005, it was declared that the First Corporal could not be found. On March 1, 2005, an arrest warrant was issued against them. The Army Lieutenant is imprisoned in the Cómbita maximum security prison. 125(95) Witnesses, lawyers and prosecutors involved in the investigations into the events of El Aro have had to abandon the zone or the country for safety reasons. vi) Disciplinary proceedings 125(96) On December 7 and 11, 1998, since the alleged facts had not been committed by members of the Army, but by a paramilitary group, the Caucasia Provincial Attorney’s Office decided to close several disciplinary proceedings related to the following facts in El Aro: (1) the theft of several head of cattle from the farm of Bernardo Jiménez, between October 20 and 28, 1997; (2) the death of Omar Iván Gutiérrez Nohavá, on October 23, 1997, and (3) the theft of livestock from the farm of the García Lopera brothers, on October 25, 1997. 125(97) On August 10, 2001, the Attorney General’s Office decided to close disciplinary proceedings related to the alleged responsibility of Major General Carlos Ospina Ovalle “and other members of the Army,” for “the events that took place at the end of October 1997 in Aro.” The Attorney General’s Office considered that there was insufficient evidence to accuse the Army of responsibility for the alleged omissions in relation to these events. 125(98) On July 30, 2001, owing to the many complaints filed since 1997 based on the events in El Aro, the Office of the Delegate Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights ordered the opening of a disciplinary investigation against Lieutenant Captain Germán Morantes Hernández, Lieutenant Everardo Bolaños Galindo and First Corporal Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona. 125(99) On January 28, 2002, the Office of the Delegate Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights disqualified itself from continuing the disciplinary procedure against Lieutenant Captain Germán Morantes Hernández and decided to bring disciplinary charges against Lieutenant Everardo Bolaños Galindo and Captain Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona. 125(100) On September 30, 2002, the Office of the Delegate Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights decided to sanction Lieutenant Everardo Bolaños Galindo and First Corporal Germán Antonio Alzate Cardona, alias “Rambo,” dismissing them from their functions as public officials because it found that they were responsible for collaborating with the paramilitary incursion in El Aro and the theft of livestock and facilitating it with criminal intent. On November 1, 2002, following an appeal filed by the said individuals, this ruling was confirmed in second instance by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Attorney General’s Office.