After his deportation to Colombia, alias Jorge 40 will must face more than 1,486 investigations carried out by the Office of the Attorney General

Rodrigo Tovar Pupo faces 35 arrest warrants and 38 security measures, according to the databases of the Office of the Attorney General. Meanwhile, 65 arrest warrants and 109 security measures appear at the Directorate of Transitional Justice. 

Within the framework of the strategy to clarify criminal acts, developed under the guidelines drawn up by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to guarantee the rights of victims to truth, justice, and reparation, the Office of the Attorney General in a joint work with the national authorities achieved the deportation of Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias Jorge 40, to continue with 1,486 investigative processes which are carried out against him for multiple crimes.  

Alias ​​Jorge 40, a former paramilitary who was part of the Northern Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)) and was expelled from the Justice and Peace (Justicia y Paz) process due to his unwillingness to collaborate with the Colombian authorities he was deported from the United States to comply with court decisions, as well as arrest warrants and security measures that have been issued against him. 

Tovar Pupo has 1,076 investigations under Law 600 of 2000 and 410 processes under Law 906 of 2004 – Accusatory criminal System  (Sistema Penal Oral Acusatorio), and he also has 38 security measures and 35 arrest warrants in the Office of the Attorney General’s System. And 65 arrest warrants and 109 security measures appear at the Directorate of Transitional Justice; therefore, he will be placed under the authority of the judicial authorities in Colombia. 

The former paramilitary is liable for forced disappearance, criminal conspiracy, the murder of a protected person, training for committing assassinations, kidnapping  for ransom, murder with terrorist purposes, robbery, drug trafficking, forced displacement, recruitment of minors and torture of a protected person among others. 

The deportation of alias Jorge 40 was carried out thanks to the outstanding work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice and Law, Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dirección de Investigación Criminal e Interpol), as well as the Embassy of Colombia in the United States 

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.