Colombia asks the US for the deportation of former paramilitary chief ‘Jorge 40’



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The national government asked the United States to deport the former paramilitary chief Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias ‘Jorge 40’, who served a sentence in that country for drug trafficking, to answer for his crimes, reported this Sunday the High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos. In a preliminary way, it is known that ‘Jorge 40’ would be arriving in the country in the last week of September.

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«It has been requested through a diplomatic note that our Foreign Ministry and the Colombian embassy in Washington have sent to the State Department for Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias ‘Jorge 40’, to return to the country once he has already served a sentence in the United States ”, assured Ceballos.

The official added that Colombian consular authorities in the US confirmed that ‘Jorge 40 ′ has already been transferred to an immigration jail in Pennsylvania from where he will transit to another prison where his deportation will be prepared.

“The deportation corresponds because ‘Jorge 40’ has already served a sentence in the United States and the Colombian authorities had been requiring it,” said Ceballos.

Alias ​​”Jorge 40″, one of the paramilitary leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), was extradited to the United States in 2008 for crimes associated with drug trafficking and was sentenced to 16 years in prison, of which he paid 12.

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