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On May 9, 2018, the Department of Justice sent a request for judicial cooperation to Colombia, through the United States Embassy in Bogotá.
They required two CTI agents to participate in a sting operation that sought to collect evidence against an organization that wanted to take 500 million dollars out of the country to launder them.
(We invite you to read: They find narcocaleta with $ 8,700 million linked to dissidents)
Federal sources told EL TIEMPO that the letter was the officialization of a previous meeting that the DEA had in Colombia with at least three high-level officials of the Prosecutor’s Office.
(You may be interested: The favor that the mafia asked the FARC 2 days after the Gómez crime).That day they were told that a US banker, of Argentine origin, had contacted them offering key information about the FARC.
Facsimile of the United States Department of Justice requesting Colombian collaboration.
According to him, members of that guerrilla had contacted him – through a lawyer – to offer him a hefty commission in exchange for helping them carry out a mega-money laundering operation.
(We invite you to read: Farc has not delivered the $ 10,000 million that it offered for reparation).
The mission of the CTI was to help move the 500 million dollars, bound in the jungle, product of drug trafficking.
By that time, a second covert operation by federal agents was already underway, which involved ‘Jesús Santrich’ in the sale of several kilos of coca that the DEA handed over to make him fall.
Route of 500 million dollars that the Farc tried to wash
Trip to the mediterranean
In fact, El Espectador has been revealing sections of more than 24,000 audios on that episode –the prelude to alias Santrich’s escape–, revealing unpublished data.
(It may be of your interest: In four countries there are assets that the FARC did not reveal on their list).
In the case of the operation to launder the 500 million dollars, this It reached the ears of the Colombian justice when it was already quite advanced.
The operation began at the same time that it ended up criminally involving ‘Jesús Santrich’ for drug trafficking.
The banker had already traveled to Colombia when he asked to see the silver. According to him, they took him into the jungles of the south of the country to show him the cans with the dollars lined in plastic.
(It may interest you: The powerful weapons in the photo of ‘Santrich’ and his gang).
Weeks later, and when the banker was already collaborating with the United States justice, DEA agents made another key move.
They accompanied the lawyer that the FARC members had delegated to open two accounts in Greece and Turkey. Those countries were chosen for having low controls and because they had been recommended to the FARC members.
(Also: Uribismo says that the FARC did not comply with their victims or the country).
The Prosecutor’s Office agreed to make the CTI agents available to the DEA to accompany the withdrawal of the dollars from the south of the country to a port in the north. The idea was that from there they would jump to a European port and then to the accounts in Greece and Turkey.
Blackmail
What the DEA wanted to know was how the members of the Farc were going to bring him back to irrigate the Colombian economy. In fact, the DEA was willing that the money did not leave Colombia and they put an identical sum to complete the laundering circuit.
The operation took a long time to start while it was decided whether, once the money was seized, it would go to repair the victims of the FARC or to Uncle Sam’s coffers. In the meantime, the ‘Santrich’ case broke out and the Farc intermediaries were silenced. But the United States knows who the emissary was and whose money it was.
(See here all the articles of the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO).
In fact, they were struck by the messages that members of the dissidents are sending, threatening to reveal secrets about gold, property and caches of demobilized leaders.
INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
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