Prosecution blunders; Colombia Supreme Court absolves paramilitary chief of drug trafficking charges
Prosecution blunders; Colombia Supreme Court absolves paramilitary chief of drug trafficking charges
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Dec 16, 2015
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday absolved former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso of drug trafficking charges after the Prosecutor General’s Office embarrassingly failed to surrender key evidence.
Mancuso was the supreme leader of the paramilitary umbrella organization AUC between 2004 and 2006 and is currently serving 15 years in a US prison for drug trafficking.
As commander of the AUC’s Catatumbo Bloc, Mancuso oversaw drug trafficking activities to the Caribbean and Venezuela, the former paramilitary leader admitted.
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Mancuso has already been sentenced for carrying out several massacres that also implicate the military, business owners, and politicians including the former president.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/supreme-court-absolves-paramilitary-chief-of-drug-trafficking-charges/
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US asks Colombia to extradite paramilitary warlord
Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:58pm EDT
BOGOTA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have asked
Colombia to extradite a paramilitary chief wanted on drug
charges after the government said he violated a peace
deal with President Alvaro Uribe, the foreign ministry
said on Thursday.
Carlos Mario Jimenez, known as Macaco, was the first
outlawed militia commander to lose benefits offered for
disarming and ending illegal activities after years of
atrocities committed in the name of fighting left-wing
guerrillas.
Colombian authorities in August said Jimenez would face
extradition after charging the paramilitary chief had kept
on organizing drug trafficking from his jail cell in breach
of the accord that had offered short sentences for
surrender.
"The formal request was received from the U.S. embassy
for the extradition of Carlos Mario Jimenez," the foreign
ministry said in a statement.
More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN25250014
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What's so fantastically strange about this case is that this killer has acknowledged he has participated in multiple massacres in Colombian towns, and he was imprisoned in the US for his DRUG TRAFFICKING. Does that make sense to you? Now Colombia has dropped the ball with his drug trafficking evidence. He's a mass murderer, for Christ's sake, he has admitted it in testimony, and they are screwing around with drug penalty charges.
