Colombia arrests organizer of 'narco holiday' that killed 24
by Adriaan Alsema August 23, 2018
Colombia’s prosecution said Thursday that it has arrested the alleged boss of the drug trafficking organization that offered free holidays abroad to poor people which ended up killing 24.
Jesus David Santofimio, the alleged boss of the group that trafficked drugs on fake tourist buses, was arrested in Florencia, the capital of the southern Caqueta province.
The suspected drug trafficker will not be charged with the death of 24 passengers in one of these tours in Ecuador last week. Instead, he will have to appear in court on drug trafficking, conspiracy and money laundering charges, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Twitter.
His organisation allegedly convinced unknowing people from some of the most marginalized communities in Cali to accept a free holiday abroad and effectively function as a cover to avoid suspicion of drug trafficking.
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The bus which was engaged to traffic drugs!
Google translated article:
Fall in Colombia head of the poster of 'narcobuses'
August 23, 2018
Colombian authorities arrested in Florencia, capital of the Amazonian department of Caquetá, a man accused of being the head of the "Cartel de los Narcobuses", which sent drugs on buses to different points, the Attorney General's Office reported on August 23.
The man was identified as Jesus David Santofimio Celis, as explained by the Prosecutor's Office on Twitter, although he did not specify if he is responsible for sending a bus with a cache of drugs to Ecuador in which 23 people died.
The accuser explained that Santofimio Celis was transferred to Ibague, in the department of Tolima (center), where he will be charged for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, drug trafficking and money laundering, the report added.
On August 14, a Colombian tourist bus crashed on the Andean highway that links Quito with the Papallacta area, when it collided with an SUV in the Palugo sector .
Esta noticia ha sido publicada originalmente por Diario EL TELÉGRAFO bajo la siguiente dirección: https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/judicial/12/narcobus-ecuador-colombia-cartel