The police found a cove with $ 8.7 billion pesos in a luxurious house in Cali

In an operation of the investigative body of the Dipol and the Dijín of the Police, together with the National Navy, the Prosecutor’s Office and authorities of Mexico and the United States, They raided a luxurious country house on the outskirts of Cali where the authorities discovered a cove that hid a large loot.

According to the Investigative Unit of the newspaper El Tiempo, in the mansion, owned by Lucio Hernando Burbano Portilla, a designated paramilitary front man, found 45 cell phones and the sum of $ 8.7 billion in cash. In addition, 15 people were captured, linked to FARC dissidents, that trafficked in Tumaco, Nariño.

“During the intervention of the authorities, Urbano was found $ 3,467, firearms, brand watches and ammunition”, highlighted El Tiempo.

Lucio Hernando Burbano Portilla He has a criminal record that links him to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and now to the dissidents of the Farc, through drug trafficking businesses.

Burbano had been identified as a front man for the drug trafficker Wenceslao Caicedo, known as “the Pablo Escobar of Buenaventura”, captured in Valencia, Spain, in October 2019; He was also accused of being the drug trafficker’s contact with the Liberators bloc of the self-defense groups, led by alias Macaco.

In 2004, when he was acting as head of the so-called Liberators of the South Bloc of the self-defense groups, he was captured by the crimes of illicit enrichment, drug trafficking and formation of illegal armed groups. At that time, all his belongings, valued at 15 billion pesos, were subject to domain forfeiture.

“While Burbano was in jail, he was accused of maintaining coca grower complexes guarded by the self-defense groups”, assured information from El Tiempo.

During 2007, the El Tiempo Investigative Unit published that Lucio Bonilla, in addition to being investigated for being a front man for Wenceslao Caicedo, also appeared as an intermediary between the mafia and the Los Libertadores Block of the self-defense groups of alias Macaco.

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