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To answer for drug trafficking charges, Fabio Simón Younes Arboleda was extradited this Friday to the United States, who is indicated by the authorities as partner ‘Jesús Santrich’ in the network to, supposedly, send cocaine to the North American country.
(Read also: Supreme Court endorses extradition of ‘Santrich’ partner)
In April 2018, along with Younes, Armando Gómez España, Marlon Marín and ‘Jesús Santrich’ were captured, after the US justice pointed out that they participated in an agreement to send drugs to that country.
According to the investigation, they and Santrich were part of an illegal organization known as ‘the Family’, who tried to send 10 tons of cocaine to the United States.
According to the US authorities, Younes was in charge of searching for planes in the United States to transport the 10 tons of coca. According to him accusation, To complete the narco-shipment, Younes was making the connections in Miami.
In November 2018, the defense of businessman Younes had asked the Supreme Court of Justice to suspend the extradition request and send his case to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), But the Court denied that request, considering that he was not an alleged collaborator of the Farc.
The high court, on the other hand, endorsed in November 2019 that he was extradited, and only the endorsement that the President of the Republic must give remained.
(You may be interested in: Fabio Simón Younes, another of the Santrich case, is now seeking a place at JEP)
In July 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the extradition of Gómez España, who was extradited in February of this year. While Marlon Marín (nephew of ‘Iván Márquez’) is already detained in the United States, collaborating with the authorities of that country in the judicial process against ‘Santrich’.
For his part, Santrich became a fugitive from justice in June 2019, when he did not appear at the inquest to which the Supreme Court had summoned him for drug trafficking.
In August of that year, he reappeared in a video, together with the former guerrilla chiefs and today dissident of the Farc ‘Iván Márquez’ and ‘el Paisa’, announcing the formation of a new group called ‘la Segunda Marquetalia’.
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