The United States authorities claim that this network made an attempt to take cocaine out of Bogotá in a NGO humanitarian flight.
The joint work of the Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Directorate against Drug Trafficking, the Dijin -National Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made it possible to locate four alleged members of a drug trafficking network wanted for extradition for sending cocaine to the United States through different illegal modalities.
These people were arrested in proceedings carried out in Bogotá, Cali and Villavicencio. They are wanted by a Court for the Middle District of Florida to answer before a trial for the crimes of trafficking drugs and criminal conspiracy.
The evidence obtained by the US justice shows that this structure allegedly bought cocaine hydrochloride in Nariño, Meta and Guaviare. Apparently, most of the drugs were sent from the Colombian Pacific to Panama and Costa Rica in speedboats. In these countries, the shipments were allegedly hidden in trucks that were in charge of transporting them to the United States.
Another method mentioned in the extradition request is related to the shipment of drugs in parcels from the airports of the country. In fact, in the course of the investigations, 10 kilograms of cocaine were seized when they intended to take them on a humanitarian flight of an international NGO.
People wanted for extradition purposes are: Álvaro Uriel Castro Gómez, alias Machete, alleged head of the drug trafficking network; and his brother Robín Alirio Castro Gómez, alias El Patrón; Carlos Fernando Duque López, alias El profe; and Ana Carolina Chaparro Corredor, alias Caro.
These people were placed under the authority of the Office of the Attorney General while the administrative and diplomatic processes to carry out their extradition move forward.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.