Gabriel Kenigsberger is linked to drug trafficking groups in Europe and Israel. The arrested man lived in Colombia for 20 years with a legal status.
In a joint operation carried out by officials of the Office of the Attorney General and members of the Army in Chapinero, a neighborhood in Bogotá, based on information provided by the Israel Police, it was possible to locate and arrest the Israeli citizen Gabriel Kenigsberger to serve a sentence of 26 years in prison for allegedly belong to drug trafficking networks.
Last October, this person was sentenced by the Fourth Special Court of Bogotá for being allegedly responsible for the commission of aggravated criminal conspiracy, trafficking, manufacture or possession of drugs; and aggravated money laundering.
According to information that has been established, Kenigsberger’s activity was related to drug trafficking and money laundering derived from illegal actions. His alleged participation in sexual exploitation of minors with the promotion of sexual tourism plans incluing adolescents is still being investigated.
The Office of the Attorney General determined that the convicted person has legal proceedings for drug trafficking in France (Interpol´s red notice), the Netherlands and Israel.
The arrested person would be one of the heads of an international organization that would have links with the Yakuza Japanese mafia and Israeli mafia, while he would act as a link with the criminal group La Oficina, which operated in Colombia.
The Israeli citizen has lived in Colombia for two decades and had a foreign resident identity card, which allowed him to go all over the country to coordinate the shipment of cocaine from ports on the Atlantic Coast to the old continent.
This result corresponds to the objectives drew up in the 2020-2024 Strategic Direction which was established by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado to impact the criminal income of transnational criminal groups based on the international cooperation.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out the criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.