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Under the façade of a consecrated grandmother, the authorities found alias La Madrina, one of the most wanted women in Europe for drug trafficking, in a home in the capital of Antioquia.
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The authorities found that he had a criminal record in Colombia, after he tried to transport money attached to the body, at the beginning of the new millennium, they highlighted on the television news program Noticias Caracol.
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“Since 2000, this woman has been earning illicit money from drug trafficking. Because of her similarity in her physical appearance, as well as in the role she had, she was called ‘Griselda Blanco’,” explained one of the Police investigators in that newscast.
After being released from prison, ‘La Madrina’ made contacts with Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias Otoniel, who at that time was the top criminal leader of the Gulf Clan, also known as the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), which allowed him to That group descended from the extinct AUC send narcotics to the mafias in the Balkan Peninsula.
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“Drug traffickers sought his advice and permission to traffic cocaine to Europe from Colombia. Then he formed a very large organization of more than 170 people,” explained the investigator of the case in Noticias Caracol.
The criminal structure of the ‘Griselda Blanco’ of the Balkans reached such power that it is currently waging a war for illegal income in Serbia with alias Milan, who has attempted to assassinate her on several occasions, including five bomb attacks, including that the aforementioned criminal was unharmed, they revealed in the aforementioned news report.
This situation of constant threat led her to seek refuge in Colombia since 2020, where she had her hideout to continue her criminal activities, until she was captured in a building in Medellín.
“She led a daily life like any woman. But from her apartment she managed to coordinate illicit activities with encrypted messaging applications. She had armored vehicles and an escort, as well as fraudulent permits,” the uniformed man explained in Noticias Caracol.
Finally, the authorities found that ‘La Madrina’ had a red Interpol notice, while on the day of her capture operation they found in her possession the codes with which she coordinated shipments of cocaine to Europe, almost 100 tons a month, with the Gulf Clan criminals.
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This capture is in addition to that of Julio Andrés Murillo Figueroa, who was known among Colombian drug traffickers with the alias of H1 or ‘El Zar’, and who is accused of being the main supplier of Sweden’s top trafficker: Jonas Sture Falk.
In an operation coordinated by the police of Spain and Colombia after two years of investigations into Murillo Figueroa, the man was captured in a luxurious estate in Llanogrande, on the outskirts of Medellín.
“(He would be the) drug distributor for the criminal organizations Mocro Maffia and Ndrangheta,” the Colombian Police highlighted.
The authorities of the two countries began to follow in the footsteps of ‘El Zar’ since 2021, after a shipment of 1,623 kilos of cocaine fell in Huelva, in the south of Spain.
They later established that the Colombian ‘narco’, who was characterized by maintaining a low profile as a ‘ghost boss’, bought the narcotic from the AGC and camouflaged it on sailboats that they sent from the national territory or from Argentina to the Iberian country, as well as to France, Holland, Belgium and Italy.
“This invisible drug trafficker, with direct links to the ‘Clan del Golfo’, especially with the ringleader ‘Gonzalito’, is requested through a Red Circular issued by Interpol Spain, for sending ‘large consignments of cocaine from South America, through sailboats’” , they concluded in the Colombian Police.