He is accused of sending shipments of cocaine hydrochloride from Colombia to Spain and the Netherlands.
The Office of the Attorney General, in coordination with the National Police and the Federal Police of Brazil, achieved the arrest for extradition purposes of Gustavo Durán Bautista, the alleged leader of a transnational drug trafficking network wanted by judicial authorities in Brazil for illicit drug trafficking and money laundering.
This person was located during a search warrant operation carried out at a property in La Floresta neighborhood, in Los Patios (Norte de Santander).
Durán Bautista is accused of sending cocaine hydrochloride from Colombia to Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina, countries allegedly used as platforms to later move the shipments to Europe, mainly Spain and the Netherlands. He allegedly concealed the drugs in fruit shipments and coordinated transportation in two-engined aircrafts and containers departing from different ports.
One of the criminal acts attributed to him is related to the seizure of 496 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in northeastern Uruguay, in the border area with Argentina.
The detainee was placed under the authority of the Directorate of International Affairs of the Office of the Attorney General, while legal and diplomatic procedures for his extradition are completed.
This information is published for reasons of public 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.