Handling the request of the Prosecutor 17° of the Anti-Narcotics and Maritime Interdiction Unit (in Spanish: UNAIM), Oscar Jerez Pineda, Jaime Jerez Galeano, Germán Quiroga Velasco and Constanza Cárdenas Duarte were sentenced to prison terms between 72 and 96 months by the Eighth Court of the specialized circuit of Bogotá for money laundering as figureheads of Daniel Barrera Barrera, a/k/a El Loco Barrera.
The individuals, within the decision, were also sentenced to pay fines between 500 and 666 legal minimum wages.
During their speeches, the Prosecutor in the case said that she determined, through authorized wiretapping and several witnesses’ testimony, the existence of an illegal group which worked in drug trafficking and led by Daniel Barrera Barrera.
In one of the raids, several commercial guides were found which would establish the existence of Arbal Ganadera and the transactions between this company and Frigorifico Guadalupe, where Óscar Richard Martínez belongs to, recalled the Prosecutor. Sufficient evidence material was also provided by the public servant that allowed the judge to rule a conviction.
In July 2010, the defendants were arrested through raids carried out on 35 Barrera’s properties located in Bogotá, Tenjo, Chinauta and Tocaima (Cundinamarca); Cartagena, Santa Marta, and Puerto Lleras and Acacias (Meta).
Daniel Barrera Barrera was captured on September 18, 2012 in Venezuela, in possession of three false identity cards and will be extradited to the United States after the approval would be given to a request of
U. S. Court in New York, who indicts him on charges of drug trafficking.