Evidence shows that this group provided 45 million COP weekly to the so-called Clan del Golfo.

At the request of a prosecutor belonging to the Delegate Office for Territorial Security, a judge imposed preventive detention measures on 12 alleged members of the criminal group ‘Los Paisanos’, for the alleged commission of different criminal acts in Córdoba.

The people allegedly involved are: Eduardo David González Segura, José Ángel Arrieta Peñata, Kellys Rosa Morales Torres, Marlys Cecilia Márquez Polo, Ana Gregoria Suárez Guerra, Nelson Enrique Medina González, Rafael Antonio Payares López, Julio César Madariaga Mendoza, Ely Yohana Núñez Márquez, Audyn Andrés Quiñónez Martínez, Gregoris María Payares Arteaga and Jhon Vairon Vargas Arteaga.

These people were arrested in an operation carried out by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), Army and Navy in properties located in the municipalities of Lorica and San Antero (Cordoba), Puerto Carreno (Vichada) and Santafe (Antioquia).

The defendants played different roles such as drug transporters, people in charge of concealing drugs, packagers, people in charge of measuring the doses and sellers. These roles allowed the drug trafficking organization to collect illegal incomes to the point that they would give the Clan del Golfo 45 million COP each week.

The Prosecutor’s Office charged the defendants, according to their individual responsibilities, with conspiracy to commit aggravated crimes for the purposes of drug trafficking, manufacture or drug possession. Preventive detention orders were issued against them.

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.