This is how ‘El Invisible’ fell, the narco who hid a cove of $ 8,500 million in a luxury house in Cali

This Thursday, October 12, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation announced that in an investigative work in conjunction with the Dijin – Gesin of the National Police, the National Navy and the Attorney General of the State of Ecuador, It was allowed to identify the members of one of the aforementioned networks to coordinate the cocaine outflow from the Pacific and who would have relationships with criminal groups in the area.

In judicial proceedings in Cali (Valle del Cauca), Tumaco and El Charco (Nariño), 10 people were captured, including the alleged leader, Lucio Burbano Portilla.

The investigative entity disclosed that during the proceedings on two buildings located in the north of Cali, where Burbano lived and was located, just over 8,500 million pesos in cash, 3,700 dollars, 11 luxurious watches, firearms were seized, documentation with privileged information on judicial and law enforcement activities.

‘El Señor’ or ‘El Invisible’ moved merchandise and money from drug trafficking through the routes controlled by illegal armed groups in the jungle area and the coast of Nariño, and he managed to accumulate a narcocaleta of more than 8,500 million pesos in cash at his luxury home in Cali.

In Tumaco, the illegal business is controlled by two armed groups outside the law that have declared war for control of the area and do not allow third parties to enter. It’s about the group Oliver Sinisterra, previously led by Walter Patricio Arízala, alias Guacho, and the United Pacific Guerrillas, which were under the command of Víctor David Segura, alias Don David.

But nevertheless, Lucio Burbano convinced both groups to maintain a non-aggression pact with his men, in exchange for financing the illegal activities of both, as informed sources of the case to Semana. Both the members of GAOR Óliver Sinisterra and the United Guerrillas of the Pacific had coca laboratories and benefited with millionaire sums of money through the ‘invisible’ drug business.

The pact was maintained even after the deaths of alias David and alias Guacho, both killed by the authorities. Burbano continued to be allied with the new leaders of the illegal groups and began to move illegal money in fuel tanks through new routes, in this way the invisible narco formed the ‘narcocaleta’ that was found this week by the authorities.

In the operative a total of 10 people were captured in Colombia and another 5 in Ecuador. Those arrested in the country were presented before a Cali guarantee control judge and a prosecutor from the Special Directorate against Criminal Organizations, who charged them, according to their level of responsibility: conspiracy to commit crimes, trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics, and money laundering.

AN INVISIBLE NARCO

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Lucio Burbano Portilla, alleged leader of this drug trafficking organization, would be the articulator of all criminal activities, and remained under the radar of the authorities.

“The test material indicates that would maintain contact with the residual structure Oliver Sinisterra to guarantee the collection of cocaine in areas surrounding Tumaco (Nariño) and their subsequent departure in boats to Pampanal de Bolívar, in Ecuador ”, assured the investigating entity.

In addition, the institution announced that “this man, demobilized from the extinct self-defense group ‘Libertadores del Sur’, supposedly He grouped the shipments of different drug trafficking organizations, which paid him to put them in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States”.

In a year of investigations to this structure, two shipments were seized. One of 340 kilograms of cocaine, on October 2, 2019, in Pampanal de Bolívar (Ecuador). Another two tons of drug, on August 3, in Acapulco (Mexico).

El Espectador reported that Burbano began working in the maritime direction of Tumaco, until he entered the drug trafficking business as a transporter, in whose role he managed “Have the capacity to lead the shipment of up to 5 tons of the alkaloid per month, through Go fast boats, from the Ecuadorian coast to North America, after transit through Mexico.” For similar facts, the Mr he was captured in 2004 and 2007 and in 2005 they took more than $ 15,000 million in properties in Putumayo, Nariño and Cauca.

In addition to the capture of Burbano, the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, revealed that in Imbilí, the rural area of ​​Tumaco (Nariño), Three leaders and three alleged members of the Los Contadores organization were also arrested. They will be charged with the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime and illegal possession of weapons.

“The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation with its territorial strategies, with its sectorized work, continues to provide answers and results to the country,” Barbosa concluded.

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