This person would be the main investor in a transnational criminal network that shipped narcotics across the Colombian Atlantic.
The Directorate Specialized in the fight against drug trafficking, in conjunction with the National Police’s Anti-Narcotics Directorate (Dirección de Antinarcóticos de la Policía Nacional (DIRAN)), arrested for extradition purposes, Carlos Andrés Rueda Ipía, alias Indio, an alleged member of a transnational network involved in the shipping of narcotics to the United States and Spain.
According to the investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s Office, alias Indio is allegedly responsible for processing cocaine hydrochloride in a laboratory located in El Plateado (Cauca) and the main investor of cocaine shipments using containers dispatched from the ports of Barranquilla (Atlántico).
He is also the alleged responsible for the creation and operation of an extensive land logistics network to move the hallucinogen within the country before its exportation, which places him as a key element in the distribution network of this criminal organization.
Therefore, Rueda Ipía is wanted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan for crimes related to conspiracy to commit crimes and trafficking in illicit substances.
The investigations led to the identification of ‘Indio’ at a property located in a sector of Bocagrande, in Cartagena (Bolívar).
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.