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Colombia arrests brother of paramilitary leader
by Adriaan Alsema April 23, 2018
Colombia’s security forces have arrested the brother of “Otoniel,” the leader of the country’s largest paramilitary organization AGC, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.
Angel Eusebio Usuga, a.k.a. “Chengo” was the paramilitary organization’s financial chief, and responsible for laundering the AGC’s mining and drug trafficking revenues.
He was arrested in Turbo, a port city in the Uraba region where paramilitary death squads like the AGC have been active since the late 1980s.
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The suspect’s son Yeimer was arrested in February on claims that he and his father were in charge of moving cocaine from factories throughout Colombia to the organization’s distribution centers along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-arrests-brother-of-paramilitary-leader/