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Ramón Antonio Ramírez Benjumea appears in official records as an exporter of high quality coffee and in Belén de Umbría (Risaralda), he is distinguished by being the owner of several luxurious properties that he visits for short periods.
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In the Canary Islands, the Colombian is also well known, but by anti-narcotics officials who point out that he is part of a network that feeds tourists who frequent the Spanish paradisiacal islands with high-purity cocaine.
According to a folder with his name, Ramírez monitored large shipments of coca arriving through the Barajas airport, and then coordinated their distribution throughout the Canary archipelago.
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With a concentration of 92 percent, they say in Spain, these caches often reach the islands camouflaged in shipments of frozen meat, electrical appliances, suitcases and even sports equipment.
Some caches of coca are moved in semi-submersibles.
When intelligence officers from Colombia’s Interpol-Dijín located him in Belén de Umbría, Ramírez denied having any connection to drug trafficking.
But he is one of 4 Colombians that judges and anti-narcotics authorities in Spain qualify as high-value targets and accuse them of being key links in criminal organizations that are flooding that country, Belgium, England and the Netherlands with coca.
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EL TIEMPO established that, through the same channel that Colombia sent the request to extradite businessman Carlos Mattos, for corruption, Spain sent documents that entangle the 5 Colombians.
Trespalacios and The Buddha
Gustavo Adolfo Moreno Lemos is another of those who appear in the request, with an additional stamp: that of a fugitive. Owner of two real estate agencies, a computer distributor and a well-known fruit outlet, Moreno Lemos came from spending a long time in Spain and later settled in Buga (Valle).
(It may be of interest to you: Creole and Russian Mafia, behind submarines that carry cocaine to Europe)At that time, a raid had just been carried out in Spain in which several traffickers allegedly fell, but others were blown up.
Gustavo Adolfo Moreno, at the Dijin facilities.
Colombia already had it on the radar, after, in October 2020, at the height of the pandemic, it suffered an attack and moved to Pereira where it was captured by Interpol-Dijín Colombia officials, in coordination with the Directorate of International Affairs of the Prosecutor’s Office and its peers in Spain, within the operation baptized as ‘Iberia’.
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Today, both businessmen are confined in a cell at the Martires station, downtown Bogotá, awaiting their extradition. And next to him are two other nationals that the Spanish justice also wants to have in their hands: Edwin Alexánder Trespalacios García and Alexánder Callejas Moreno.
Edwin Alexander Trespalacios, guarded by Interpol – Dijin officials.
Trespalacios was captured a few weeks ago by Interpol officials in the Buena Vista shopping center in Barranquilla, while he was negotiating a property worth about 800 million pesos.
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He owns a fleet of taxis and his migratory movements have registered several entries to Europe for four years. According to the Spanish authorities, Traspalacios would be linked to an organization that moved more than 1,170 kilograms of coca that were marketed in that country and in England.
Alexander Callejas, remains with the other captured, in a Police station.
They documented encounters with contacts at the Eurostars Suites Mirasierra hotel, at the Galicia Palace, in Pontevedra, and at the Plenilunio shopping center in Madrid.
Alexánder Callejas, meanwhile, is linked to drug movements close to 2.3 million euros, which were marketed in the Canary Islands.
(It may be of interest to you: Coca that fell in Spain is linked to the Maduro regime: USA)“Escort ladies allowed him to be tracked down,” explained an intelligence officer. And he added that he was captured in Barranquilla, near an establishment known as El Buda.
2.3 million Euros
It cost one of the caches seized from the network to which Callejas is linked.
The fifth element
Finally, in a central Bogota bar, embedded in Sanandresito de la 38, Interpol Colombia officials got their hands on the fifth element of these structures required by Spain: Francisco Javier González Alfonso.
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European authorities accuse him of participating in the shipment of high-purity coca to Holland, Belgium, Bulgaria and Spain, in containers full of pineapple and lemon.
Several interceptions allowed intelligence officers to find González. EL TIEMPO established that, in addition, a change in its appearance and the fact that it moved through neighborhoods of stratum 6 and 2, complicated its location.
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Filled with thick chains and gold bracelets, he was handcuffed and taken to the same cells where the other wanted are.
For now, all have denied the charges made from Spain and some of them are preparing resources to try to stop the extradition, claiming their full innocence.
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