Sergio Hernán Perdomo Liévano, extraditable, committed suicide – Crimes – Justice



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The Attorney General’s Office confirmed that Sergio Hernán Perdomo Liévano was committed suicide on wednesday, towards noon. He was being held in the cells of Paloqueamao, captured for the purpose of extradition to the United States for bank fraud.

Perdomo Liévano was captured – on February 20 of this year – at the El Dorado international airport in Bogotá, when he tried to board a flight to Madrid, Spain. .

Perdomo, 54, was required by the Court of the Southern District of Florida, United States.

Perdomo was accused of going to an intermediary and using false documents and information to obtain a loan for $ 950,000 in the United States to, supposedly, buy a condominium.

Apparently, he disappeared with the money and the bank took as part of payment the funds of the woman who made the request for the money.

(We invite you to read: Colombian would have stolen a million dollars from a US bank.)

According to research carried out in the US, the entity that financed the loan lost $ 404,000 between 2006 and 2009.

The person involved is required as allegedly responsible for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime and electronic and bank fraud”, Said at the time the director of financial investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, Pedro David Berdugo.

The body of Perdomo Liévano was transferred to Forensic Medicine to carry out the autopsy and other pertinent procedures.

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The person involved is required as allegedly responsible for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime and electronic and bank fraud

For drug trafficking he had already been extradited

In October 1999, Perdomo Liévano was captured, in a coordinated operation between the National Police and the United States Anti-Drug Agency, DEA. He was arrested along with Fabio Ochoa and Alejandro Bernal.

(For context, we invite you to read: Find a place in the JEP, drug trafficking strategy to stop extradition)

At the time, he was involved with a drug trafficking network that had shipped more than 30 tons of cocaine to the United States.

He was extradited in November 2001, and was imprisoned for 7 years.

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