US Embassy refers to the case of Jesús Santrich: DEA complies with the laws of Colombia

This Tuesday, December 1, the United States Embassy in Colombia he referred to the role of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the extradition case against Jesús Santrich. This after several audios that El Espectador revealed raised doubts about this procedure, which many classified as a “entrapment” against the former head of the demobilized Farc-Ep.

According to the embassy statement, DEA and other representatives of United States law enforcement in Colombia, we always work in strict compliance with the laws of the United States and Colombia and under the supervision of the prosecutors of both countries.

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“The DEA and other agencies follow procedures on the development of cases and investigation methods that comply with the laws of the United States and Colombia. Any claim to the contrary is baseless and only undermines our joint effort to combat transnational crime. “they pointed out.

Likewise, the US embassy declared that cooperation between the United States and Colombia in the areas of law enforcement and extradition has fought for many years drug trafficking, tourism and sexual abuse of children, human trafficking, transnational corruption and terrorism, among other crimes. This work helps promote the interests, values, and freedoms shared by our countries.

Lastly, they insisted that the United States supports the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC.

“He was an observer in the conversations that led to the agreement in Havana. The United States government has contributed more than $ 1 billion in the last four years to the causes of citizen security, inclusive and sustainable economic development, agrarian reform, and full economic, political, and social participation of the Afro and indigenous communities that have been strongly affected by the conflict “US diplomats recalled.

The version that ex-prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez handles

After Senators Gustavo Petro, Iván Cepeda and Roy Barreras accused the former Attorney General of the Nation, Néstor Humberto Martínez of using his position to put obstacles to the peace process with the FARC, the accused appeared in a debate in the Congress of the Republic and responded to the allegations.

Martínez defended his actions when he was head of the highest accusing body and he said that it is not true that he has made a setup to Jesús Santrich to affect the negotiated in Havana, Cuba between the State and the FARC.

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According to the then prosecutor, President Juan Manuel Santos was aware of the complaints that began to arise regarding the relationship of some former combatants with drug trafficking activities, collects RCN.

I gave information to President Santos, I informed him that some people were involved in drug trafficking activities, because we were fulfilling our duty to investigate the conduct after December 1, 2016.

Martínez maintained that the cocaine with which Santrich was accused was not the property of the Attorney General’s Office and he assured that he delivered all the audios related to the process to the JEP.

All the audios that were available and requested were handed over to the JEP, but the JEP violated its constitutional and legal duties in that case, as it did not want to do recently when Fabio Younes was denied the guarantee of non-extradition, the same cases With completely different solutions, because they gave the guarantee to Santrich and they denied it to Fabio Younes, Fabio Younes is extradited.

The former prosecutor ended up questioning the congressmen who summoned the debate in the Congress of the Republic and said that they are “public defenders of a case of international drug trafficking.”

“The main protagonist of all this entanglement that we would not have wanted to live in Colombia, Mr. Márquez’s relative declares before the courts under the gravity of oath that the coca was provided by Santrich through alias ‘John’ and you want me to say the coca belonged to the Prosecutor’s Office. What a marvel, they were public defenders of an international drug trafficking case “, he indicated.