Colombian drug lord gets forty five years in jail in US

Powerful Colombian drug trafficker and cartel chief Dairo Antonio Úsuga has been sentenced to 45 years in jail inside the United States. The equipped courtroom in New York deemed it demonstrated on Tuesday that the chief of the Clan del Golfo, additionally known as Otoniel, smuggled massive amounts of cocaine to the USA. He become also fined 216 million greenbacks, which is ready 196 million euros. Otoniel, 51, pleaded responsible to drug trafficking at the start of this yr.

According to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, Usuga ran certainly one of the most important drug gangs in the global and smuggled large quantities of cocaine into the United States. “He ordered the brutal execution of Colombian law enforcement officials, soldiers and civilians.” Prosecutor Breon Peace said the sentence surpassed down is a message for other cartel leaders. “The US will keep to press for their arrest and extradition so they can be held responsible in our courts.”

Otoniel led the Clan del Golfo between 2003 and 2021, making it the maximum powerful crime agency in Colombia. The gang specially recruits amongst former proper-wing paramilitaries and is said to have about 6,000 participants. Besides drug trafficking, the clan is engaged in unlawful mining and extortion. The gang is also responsible for severa murders and deportations.