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At the request of the Justice and Peace authorities, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice They presented to the Government of the United States of America a formal request for the former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso to be extradited to Colombia.
The request was presented through the diplomatic channel to the United States Government on April 15 and with this It is expected that, according to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice, Mancuso Gómez appear before the Colombian jurisdiction “to guarantee the harvest of the truth, reparation and non-repetition that the victims of the crimes attributed to them deserve.”
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Although it was planned that The former paramilitary chief would be released on March 27 from the Atlanta prison, where he has been incarcerated for more than 12 years serving a sentence for drug traffickingThis was not possible because all prisons are closed due to the health crisis that the United States – and the world – is undergoing due to the coronavirus.
So Mancuso had to remain in jail until his situation is resolved. In January of this year, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that, once he arrives in the country, it is not possible for Mancuso to recover his freedom because has another investigation pending for money laundering of drug money and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the Court, this is a case of a company that was registered under the name ‘911’ and was in charge of providing security to establishments of chance. The investigation established that said company presented exaggerated operating income, which, apparently, shows that in the firm there was a money laundering, and that Mancuso would have returned to commit a crime after demobilizing with the Justice and Peace law.
According to the former paramilitary chief’s lawyers, in the new criminal proceeding that began, there is an assembly of people who would seek “profit financially and have Mancuso excluded from the transitional process”.
For the Court, it is clear that, according to the imputation, the events occurred after the demobilization, since the file shows how the accounting of different companies was altered
However, despite the arguments presented by the defense, for the Court it is clear that according to the complaint, the events occurred after the demobilization, since the file shows how the accounting of different companies was altered between 2003 and 2006.
The Court clarified that the arguments presented by the defense of Mancuso Gómez “are foreign to this transitional justice matter” and may be heard with the evidence that supports his alleged innocence in said events.
For now, the 55-year-old former paramilitary chief will remain incarcerated in the United States’ Atlanta prison. until his situation is resolved with this new request for extradition raised by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice.
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