Small parcels containing everyday items were contaminated with small amounts of cocaine and then placed in international courier companies, located in several cities of the country, including the city of Santa Marta, in Magdalena, so that they would reach France, Spain, London and the Netherlands. , Germany and Australia.
This was the modus operandi of a drug trafficking structure recently dismantled by uniformed members of the Dijín of the National Police, with the collaboration of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the French Anti-Drug Agency.
In a statement, the authority explained that the operation culminated in the arrest and extradition of alias ‘El Químico’; the arrest of two Colombian citizens in Spain and eight people in the cities of Cali and the municipalities of Tuluá and Palmira in the Cauca Valley, in the city of Santa Marta and the municipality of Mosquera, in Cundinamarca.
Among the prisoners is Ricardo Adrián Zuleta Soto, alias ‘Barbas’, leader of the criminal organization. Hernán Ocampo Yusty, aka ‘Nacho’; Herman Augusto Echeverry, aka ‘Flaco’, Jaider Luis Sánchez Castro, aka ‘Mello’; Edilbrando Rojano Alfaro, aka ‘Brandon’; Yuliana Constanza Galvis Herrera, aka ‘Yuli’; Héctor Fabio Gaitán Pérez, alias ‘Don Fabio’, and Juan Carlos Sánchez Castro, alias ‘Juancho’.
According to the investigation, these people had been consecutively sending cocaine abroad using the above-mentioned modality for about five years and managed to send about 200 kilos to various European destinations; In 2021, the brother and associate of the main leader, Fabio Alfonso Zuleta Soto, was captured by INTERPOL red notice for extradition purposes, and was extradited to Spain in mid-2022.
The investigators had been chasing this criminal organization for two years, on whom they carried out surveillance, monitoring and technical controls, which allowed them to individualize and identify each of its members.
These people were brought before a judge for guarantee control, who legalized their arrests and a prosecutor accused them, in their individual responsibilities, of the crimes of trafficking, production or transportation of narcotic drugs, conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering money. Seven of the captured people were placed under a custodial measure in a prison and the alias ‘Yuli’ was placed under a custodial measure at his home.
Source: El heraldo
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