He would be responsible for the collection and departure of cocaine shipments from the center of the country through a courier company to San Andrés Islands, to later send them to the United States.
Gil Díaz Zúñiga, alias El Negrito, the alleged coordinator and main financier of a criminal network accused of sending tons of cocaine hydrochloride to the United States, was placed at the Attorney General’s Office disposal.
This person was arrested in a joint action by the Specialized Directorate in the fight against Drug Trafficking and the National Police, in a property in San Andrés Islands. The procedure was carried out by virtue of an extradition request filed by a United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, for the crime of drug trafficking.
Alias Negrito would be involved in the storage of the illegal substance in the municipalities of Cundinamarca and Bolívar; and its subsequent shipment to San Andrés, where he coordinated the transfer to international destinations.
The evidence indicates that, he apparently used a courier company to move the shipments by air under the appearance of parcels.
The Office of International Affairs of the Office of the Attorney General will conduct the appropriate communications pending the formalization of the extradition request for Gil Díaz Zúñiga, and the completion of the diplomatic and legal procedures.
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 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.