“Through the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol, it materialized the delivery of eight Colombian citizens to authorities of the United States, who are required by the Court of the Eastern District of Texas by the Drug trafficking crimes And a concert to commit crimes, ”said the institution in a statement.
Police information explained that from the cross biojó allegedly administered a citrus storage company, which turned out to be a facade to camouflage cocaine shipments which were sent to the United States through Central America.
The former player was captured in 2023 in Tumaco, where he was born. It was nationalized in Equatorial Guinea and He played for that selection in the African Cup of Nations of 2012.
In 2013, Biojó was diagnosed with malaria. Although he survived the disease, His physical condition was never the same again and forced him to retire of professional football and return to Colombia.
Prosecutor General of the Nation and the joint task of stabilization and consolidation Hercules, both institutions of Colombia, They relate it to a transnational drug trafficking network.
Likewise, in Colombia he played with Deportivo Cali, América de Cali, Independiente Santa Fe and Deportivo Pasto.
Another of the extradited was Pedro Pablo Guzmán Usma, “Pelomono”, captured on January 13, 2024 in necoclí, Antioquia.
Police explained that Guzmán is close to the circle of the family of “Bad Chiquito”, whose name is Jobanis de Jesús Ávila, Maximum Chief of the Gulf Clan, the main criminal band of Colombia.
According to investigations, Guzmán was the owner of several commercial entities through which he washed money from drug traffickingincluding a dedicated to the financing and production of great magnitude musical events in northern Colombia.
By Antonio Ballesteros neighbor, “Toño”, also close to “bad boy”, the police said that coordinated cocaine shipments through fast boats From the Gulf of Urabá, passing through Panama, Costa Rica, until reaching the United States.
From the extradited group is also Ángel Navarro Romero, Vallenata music singerwho apparently was linked to a drug trafficking network that sent cocaine cargoes to the United States, said police information.
The other extradited were Darío Córdoba Chaverres, Juan Camilo Pacheco, Fernando López Rivera and Guido Bonilla.