Former President Alvaro
Uribe facilitated drug trafficking between Colombia to Mexico while he was in
office, the former security chief of a cargo airliner told an exiled
prosecution investigator.
The bombshell
allegation by the anonymous former security chief of Colombian airliner Air
Cargo Lines were revealed by Richard Maok Riaño, a former prosecution agent who
fled to Canada in 2002 after revealing extensive ties between paramilitary
group AUC and state officials.
From Antioquia to
Sinaloa
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| El Mono Vides |
Mono Vides”According to
the former security chief, Uribe played a key role in setting up a drug
trafficking route that allowed the late “El Mono Vides” of drug trafficking
group “Los Paisas” send 10 metric tons of cocaine from Bogota‘s El Dorado
airport to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico in 2007.
Vides, a former member
of paramilitary group AUC, was killed in a police operation in the northwestern
Antioquia province in October 2010.
Others who were
allegedly involved in the drug and arms trafficking plot were executives of the
airliner, top officials of air traffic authority Aerocivil and a top
anti-narcotics police commander with the same last name as former National
Police chief Jose Roberto Leon.
Uribe received $1
million in bribes for helping to set up the drug trafficking route, according
to the source, who surrendered documents allegedly proving inside information
of Air Cargo Lines.
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How was Uribe allegedly
involved?
According to the
source, Air Cargo Lines executive Raul Jimenez and politician Enrique Gomez
first met with Uribe at the presidential palace in Bogota in 2007.
Following this meeting,
the source said he flew to Medellin to surrender the bribe to two alleged
messengers of the former president at a 15-minute drive from the Rionegro
airport.
The former president
subsequently ordered civilian aviation authorities to allow the construction of
a hangar outside the permitted area and allegedly intervened to permit the
entry of a DC-8 airplane that was not allowed entry to Colombian airspace due
to multiple technical failures, according to the source.
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| Alex with Chapo |
The drug trafficking
stopped after a metric ton of cocaine went missing after the fifth flight
carrying 6.3 metric tons from Bogota had arrived in Mexico.
At the time of the
alleged drug trafficking, Colombian drug trafficker Alex Cifuentes was the
right-hand man of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin Guzman, a.k.a. “El Chapo.”
Uribe’s late brother
Jaime had two children with Cifuentes’ sister Dolly.
The former president is
currently tried by the Supreme Court over his alleged attempts to manipulate
witnesses who have testified about his family’s allegedly criminal past.
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| Dolly |
El Chapo and the two Cifuentes siblings are currently serving prison sentences in the United States for drug trafficking.
When “El Chapo” was on
trial in the United States last year, Cifuentes accused Colombia’s former
National Police chief Oscar Naranjo also taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel.
During that same trial,
Cifuentes also accused former Mexican President Enrique Peña of having received
bribes from the cartel.
The Sinaloa Cartel
continues to be active in Colombia, according to the prosecution.
Former president of Colombia. To present president of Mexico. Seems no president is infallible. Once offered the almighty peso.
ReplyDeleteEl Smarto
No presidente needs pesos, but Alvaro Uribe Velez loves his dollars, that is why he sold out his soul to wars on drugs and led the AUC, PEPES, POLICIA NACIONAL, EJERCITO, ELN, LOS DICSCIPULOS, the paracos and the milicos produced the Falsos Positivos and led the drug trafficking that made uribe a billionaire and has his ass afraid be is going to be in prison one of these days...
Delete--AMLO ONLY CARES ABOUT BECOMING MEXICO'S HERO, NOT ABOUT PEISOS OR DOLLAHS.
I wonder what motivates Richard Maok Riaño to stick out his head and speak. His actions must be putting his family and himself in danger.
ReplyDeleteWhat does he have to gain from this?
Chapo was bigger than the US knew about. He was Mayos boss not the other way around like everyone thinks. Mexicos president recently admitted in an interview that Chapo had more power than the president of Mexico at the times of he reign.
ReplyDeleteAt long last, you are naming former president Uribe el Uberrimo fundador de los AUC del Urabá y el giniral oscar naranjas, guess the colombian police academy catalog of police cadets that were rented out by the hour, day or weeks was not making Naranjas enough money...
ReplyDeleteSO what's the big deal about this story, When you had Mexican presidents doing the same thing along with their relatives and nothing was done.
ReplyDeleteCHAPO at court gave a list of all Presidents & political workers that took money/bribes, Mexico done nothing, they look the other way because their taking money now too.
When is the USA going to charge the expresidente of México peña nieto forthe role he played in the cartel's business.
ReplyDeleteBut yet chapo is the villain...chapo is just the fall guy
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