On the morning of July 5, police teams arrived at the singer’s apartment. Vallenata Enaldo Barrera Hernández, known as Diomedito They introduced themselves and when there was no response they forced the locks into the property. and making the capture of the artist effective.
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Barrera Hernández, who served a prison sentence in the United States in November 2001, where she was caught carrying two kilos of heroin, is now Appears in the organizational chart of a powerful drug trafficking network run by a boss from La Guajira who has tentacles with Mexican cartels and that he took orders from two invisible drug traffickers hiding in Venezuela.
In the investigation carried out by the police and prosecutor’s office, the identities of 25 people who will be members of the terrorist organization were determined. Ferman Segundo Castañeda Hernández, aka Cóndor, He was considered a powerful drug trafficker from La Guajira, whose network has the capacity to coordinate shipments of about eight tons of cocaine per month to Central America, the United States and Europe.
In the ‘New Horizon’ operation, a total of 17 people, including Diomedito and Cóndor, were captured and captured. Identify ‘La Firma’ and ‘Caco’ as those who finance shipments from Venezuela.
‘Diomedito’ is considered by researchers as an essential piece of hardware in a criminal organization because, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, “he hired lawyers from ‘La Firma’ to sell goods and cars and finance a shipment of drugs.”
In fact, the prosecutor in the case pointed out that he went to Venezuela with Cesar Díaz, another of those arrested, between 25 May and 1 June 2021.
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This The network had the natural harbors of Puerto Inglés and Puerto López in the Parajimaruhú region (Uribia, La Guajira).), where they coordinated the collection and delivery of illegal substances in the Wayuunaiki dialect to avoid interference from the Public Power.
Police sources, Barrera Hernández “They had an alliance in favor of the aliases Cóndor or El Ave, the head of the main drug trafficking organization, to facilitate money laundering. International at La Guajira”.
And he was responsible for “coordinating the purchase of real estate, vehicles, investment in livestock and fine-grained horses to facilitate the interconnection of illicit capital in the financial sector.”
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Indeed, in the investigative documents the artist took advantage of his concerts and presentations to show money movements in the financial sector and in this waymake up figures in favor of the organization’s money laundering”.
In addition, Barrera is accused of coordinating the security and attention of network administrators when they move to Bogotá, where they have an apartment to buy them. He had high-end vehicles to transport them and had ‘Parce’, ‘Merras’ and ‘César’ ready to accompany them.
And, according to the researchers, as an artist, he entertained the parties his band members attended. organization, including foreign partners.
In one of the interceptions, it is mentioned that some assets of the organization are in the name of Diometido to appear legitimate, and there is talk of an 800 million pesos apartment and a 400 million pesos vehicle.
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The prosecution noted that Barrera was heard to increase his assets by 1,000 million pesos in 2021 alone and voiced concern in wiretaps that he would not be able to justify that income.
in another chatThe defendant says that he has a shortage of money because he has not done business with the network for a long time, and he talks about the need to meet with the organization’s managers to do business..
According to the study, members of the network, which has been investigated since 2019, purchased the drug from production sites in Catatumbo in Norte de Santander and then transported it by land to La Guajira, where the collection centers are located.
It has been proven that they have illegal shipyards to transport drugs to Central America by speedboats and semi-divers. It was learned that those who took the drug were citizens of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
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In this process, there are 230 lines and information intercepted from US agencies, which were determined to be the power behind the criminal network in the state of Falcon-Zulia in the neighboring country. In addition, it was possible to identify alleged payments made to members of La Guajira’s indigenous communities to conceal drugs and to allow the military to pass shipments.
I even know He documented the case of a police officer in uniform, for whom he would pay 20 million pesos for not stopping a drug-laden car.
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Likewise, investigators documented that the network had a company in Riohacha that they used to guarantee all the logistics and fueling of the boats to transport coca.
The investigation includes the connections that the network has. Nicknamed Ismael Zambada García, El Mayo was seen as the feared head of the Sinaloa cartel. Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera barely rises in the drug structure while already capo ‘El Mayo’ is close to 70 years old and is the oldest drug trafficker of organized crime leaders still active.
Despite this, he was never caught and became a major supporter for ‘El Chapo’. They are even said to be family, because according to Guzmán’s supposed daughter Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz’s version, he and Zambada’s son ‘El Vicenillo’ were married and had children.
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During the trial, Diomedito’s defense, led by the office of criminal attorney Marlon Fernando Díaz, demanded that his client disclose exactly at what point he committed the crime. Specify amounts and transactions. He added that this information must be open to ensure legal process.
At Monday’s hearing, the defendant will say whether he pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit a crime and to illegal enrichment charges.
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Source: Exame
