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Leader of the Gulf Clan in Colombia will be extradited to the United States
Colombia's most wanted drug lord was captured after the "Osiris" operation and will be extradited to the United States.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, mostly known as Otoniel, was the most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia, and also led the largest criminal gang in that country before his capture.
Through a capture plan commissioned by the Colombian Army, Air Force and Police, called "Osiris", they managed to capture the maximum Chief of the well-known Gulf Clan, the most dangerous criminal gang in the country.
Capture details
In the operation, the Osiris capture plan, 500 soldiers from the different entities involved participated, accompanied by 22 helicopters.
The drug trafficker had 128 arrest warrants from his country, in addition to 50 intelligence experts from US and British agencies tracking him.
According to the police commander, Jorge Vargas, Otoniel was located in the northeast of Colombia, in the rural area of Antioquia, near the border with Panama.
The criminal for many years had hidden very well, even so, the officers had already studied him well, and they knew that he suffered from back pain due to a herniated disc, and this little clue was what helped with his capture.
Although the 50-year-old man constantly changed hiding places, and these always in rural areas, what did not change was the types of mattresses he used to sleep, and thanks to those they found in each possible hiding place, they were tying up the dots until they found it.
His fear of being captured was so great that he did not use any type of devices, much fewer telephones, and to communicate he only opted for messengers.
Shortly after capture
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, reported through a national television network that everything that happened was about the hardest blow that has been made to drug trafficking in this century, in the country.
He even pointed out that it is an act only compared to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 90s.
In contrast, General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of the Colombian National Police, confirmed that the drug trafficker will be extradited to the United States, but did not fully report when this will take place.
Similarly, it is known that Otoniel was transferred to a military base in Bogotá, and from there the shipment to the United States will be managed.
It is worth mentioning that the president also pointed out that the detainee was a murderer of policemen, soldiers, social leaders and a recruiter of minors.
United States present in the case
This criminal had been on the Drug Enforcement Administration's most wanted list for years, better known as DEA, for its acronym in English.
In addition to this, they had offered up to $5 million for any information leading to the capture of this man.
The Latino drug trafficker is accused by the United States authorities, for the case of importing between 2003 and 2014, 73 metric tons of cocaine.
Even so, the Americans have not disclosed details of information about the extradition of the Colombian drug trafficker.
Who is this man?
At the beginning of the 70s he was born in Antioquia, and from the age of 16 he began to participate in different guerrilla and paramilitary groups, until he became part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
He was also a member of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary gang made up of drug traffickers.
Crime history
Over the years, after the AUC had been dissolved and Daniel Rondón, known as "Don Mario" and also his brother Juan de Dios Úsuga, had already died, he became the head of the Urabeños, the band that it is known today as the Clan del Golfo.
This gang is believed to have 1,800 armed members, recruited exclusively from far-right paramilitary groups, as was the leader at the time.
This gang that he led, controls the cocaine drug trafficking routes that go from Colombia to the United States and Russia.
It is also known that this gang operates in many provinces, and also has multiple international connections, and that it is not only dedicated to drug trafficking, but also people, and the illegal extraction of gold as well as extortion.
For their part, the Colombian security forces consider this organization the most powerful and criminal in the country, and the Americans describe it as a heavily armed and extremely violent gang.
