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This Monday, November 30, the journalist María Jimena Duzán interviewed former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez on W Radio about the doubts that have arisen in the operation that ended in the capture of Jesús Santrich.
Regarding the collaboration of the United States in the case, the former prosecutor said that “the United States was never asked to collaborate in monitoring the 5 kilos of coca“And added that they had ‘caught’ the DEA and Marlon Marín in the same operation.
Regarding the order for cooperation in the controlled delivery of coca, he assured that “there were at that time, parallel to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, requests for cooperation from the US Department of Justice against an international drug trafficking organization”.
“The first time that these investigations refer to someone other than Marín and Gómez and a blind person is referred to is on October 28, 2017. On November 1, Marlon Marín requests a ‘trichi’ meeting by phone”, He added.
Regarding the meeting of September 25, 2017 in which an undercover DEA agent gave Marín money to buy coca, the prosecutor said that, “we noticed the existence of an international operation that the United States was carrying out with a group of drug traffickers in Colombia ”.
“The first operation in which there was an agent for controlled delivery at the request of the United States was the one carried out on November 1, 2017”Martinez added.
Regarding the reason for not delivering the collaboration orders to the JEP, he assured that the Constitutional Court gave the order to the Prosecutor’s Office that the entity could not be deprived of jurisdiction with respect to extraditions. “In that order, the Court requires the Prosecutor’s Office to forward the file related to the extradition of Jesús Santrich. […] We have already said that Santrich did not appear in the judicial cooperation orders, when Marlon Marín was being investigated there was no Santrich”.
Regarding the recent statements by former President Juan Manuel Santos in which he assures that he was not aware of this operation, the former prosecutor said that “On October 19, I could not inform him of what was going to happen on November 1 because I did not know”.
In addition, he assured that former General Vice President Óscar Naranjo has nothing to do with this case.
Finally, former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez pointed out that “the Prosecutor’s Office conducted an investigation and It was found that the only one who had been kicked was Álvaro Leyva in 2013 when I was not a prosecutor and had no intention of taking office ”.
