Colombian Kingpin "Don Carlos" Florentino Fernandez Captured in Spain
By Socalj 3/07/2022 08:38:00 PM
"Socalj" for Borderland Beat
Florentino Fernández, also known as Don Carlos, was captured by police officers as he was having a coffee in a Marbella bar. On his arrest, police officers raided his house where they seized €200,000 in cash and a revolver. In addition, the Spanish authorities have applied to the court to freeze his assets including property valued at €350,000 as those of his associates and bank accounts. The arrest was the culmination of an 18-month police operation that was tracking a shipment of 60kg of cocaine from Colombia hidden in boxes of flowers.
Officers swooped on a suspected lorry as it was leaving an industrial estate on the outskirts of Seville where the drugs were seized and two people arrested. The delivery truck was en route to Malaga for distribution throughout Europe. According to the police statement, Don Carlos was described as “a powerful Spanish drug trafficker,” who had smuggled the drugs from Colombia. There was a vehicle ready with which the group of criminals intended to transport the merchandise to its final buyers on the Costa del Sol, hidden in a false bottom of the trunk. Before being able to do so, the two people in charge of the task were arrested.
Don Carlos, who is from the northern autonomous community of Asturias has been on the police´s radar since 1993 when his involvement with high-ranking members of the Medellin and Cali cartels became known. He is believed to have lived for several years in Colombia and his Madrid address belonged to Gilberto Orejuela, one of the founders of the Cali cartel.
He was arrested in 1998 he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the kidnapping of two women over unpaid debts from a rival gang. Alias The old has occupied the letters of the national press. Time Magazine recorded in 1997 that a “Spanish prisoner” testified against the deceased congressman Horacio Serpa Uribe. The newspaper recorded that Fernández García was allegedly talking about an alleged meeting in which Elizabeth Montoya, the famous “Monita Retrechera”, would have offered former President Ernesto Samper between US$15 million and US$20 million. On behalf of the brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, leaders of the Cali Cartel.
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Florentino Fernández, on the left.
Google translation:
Falls 'El Viejo', capo who committed crimes in the Cali cartel and Medellín cartel
Along with the renowned drug trafficker, two more men were captured. Drugs and cash were seized during the operation.
Mar 06, 2022
By:
The Herald
Editorial ELHERALDO.CO
The Spanish authorities, in coordination with the Antinarcotics Directorate of the National Police, captured a well-known Spanish drug trafficker who had worked for Colombian cartels.
This is Florentino Fernández García, alias 'Don Carlos' or 'El Viejo', a native of Avilés (Asturias).
'Alias 'El Viejo', is a capo who committed crimes with the Medellin cartel, the Cali cartel and the Norte del Valle cartel with the capos Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, alias 'Chupeta'.
The authorities confirmed that one of the residences where Fernández García lived was owned by Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela in Madrid.
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https://www.elheraldo.co/mundo/alias-el-viejo-senalado-narcotraficante-capturado-en-espana-892560