September 27 () –
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, contacted his Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, this Thursday to ask that Diego Marín Buitrago, alias ‘Pitufo’ and considered ‘smuggling czar’, “be brought to the Colombian Justice”.
“Great smuggling has been the hinge between great political and state powers and drug trafficking, for decades, ruining the national industry. It is good that these relationships of great corruption are revealed with their own name,” he declared through his profile on social network
Petro has thus made reference to the news that ‘Pitufo’ met with Paulo Xavier Romero, former prosecutor delegate to the Supreme Court and current early warning sectional prosecutor who has more than 25 open investigations for prevarication, procedural fraud, destruction of documents, inter alia.
The ‘smuggling czar’, who also has Spanish nationality and was arrested in April in the Valencian town of Gandía, “is the head of a broad criminal association that includes people who are inside the State, in political life and in general, in crime in Colombia, dedicated to smuggling in the country,” Petro explained.
The Spanish Justice granted provisional release to the suspect, an action criticized by the Colombian president, and the Prosecutor’s Office appealed the measure due to risk of flight, appreciating the risk of flight and highlighting that the crimes for which he is claimed by Colombia – smuggling, bribery and criminal organization– are serious.
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