From Dubai, Julio Lozano rejected Pirateque, who identified as a member of a “mafia board of directors,” allegedly involved in a plan to assassinate President Gustavo Petro.
Lozano Pirateque, who is in the United Arab Emirates, was linked to criminal activities after serving a sentence in the United States and returning to Colombia in 2016. However, in an interview with The Timedenied these allegations and declared that his departure from the country was motivated by frames against him.
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Lozano Pirateque, who was released in 2016 after serving a six-year prison sentence in the United States, has been the subject of various criminal charges since his return to the country.
Among them, he is linked to the surrender and murder of his former partner Luis Caicedo, alias “Don Lucho”, and to a drug laboratory found on the estate of former ambassador Fernando Sanclemente. Despite these allegations, Lozano Pirateque has insisted that he has nothing to do with current criminal activities and that his name has been used as a “scapegoat,” as cited by the national media.
In fact, among the complaints made by the president himself about plots against him, Lozano Pirateque He is mentioned as part of a criminal organization that operates from Dubai, according to them, and that would be planning an attack against the president of Colombia.
According to the dialogue, Lozano Pirateque flatly denied these allegations and said that his life in Dubai is peaceful and far from any illegal activity. “I am a good person,” he declared, adding that he took refuge in the Arab city for security reasons.
In addition, the case of Lozano Pirateque is further complicated by the rumor of the extradited leader of the Clan del Golfo, aka “Otoniel”. In the audio, “Otoniel” accuses him of continuing to ship cocaine shipments and of being involved in the murder of “don Lucho.”
“I had to leave the country because they started to montage me. I decided to leave when a lawyer tried to give me Ambassador Sanclemente’s case. And I was in Italy when I found out that my ex-partner Luis Caicedo had been killed. How was he going to hand it over, as they say, if he wasn’t even in the country?”, he explained in the interview.
However, Lozano Pirateque rejected these claims, suggesting that they could be part of a defense strategy by Otoniel or an attempt by third parties to harm him.
Regarding his alleged links with the emerald dealer Hernando Sánchez, Lozano Pirateque also denies that Sánchez is his front man. He assures that, although he met Sánchez, he has no financial relationship with him and that the accusations against him are unfounded.
The president of Colombia has said again that there is a plan to attack his life. According to public statements, he has said that he could be murdered in the next three months, and that the threat comes from a “mafia order”. This statement was made during an assembly in favor of the Government of Change, at the National University.
The president also indicated that the information about this alleged plot came to him through the DEA (United States Anti-Drug Agency), through the ambassador. According to Petro, the plan is to use a dump truck loaded with dynamite and explosives to attack him, at his residence or at a public event.
Furthermore, he linked these threats to an alleged mating attempt. “The coup d’état is commonly answered with another revolution,” he said in one of his events, in which he denies a plan to assassinate or remove him before his term ends in August 2026.
In addition, the president linked these threats to the investigation carried out by the National Electoral Council (CNE) into his campaign, on alleged irregular financing, describing that investigation as “arbitrary”. The CNE, for its part, responded that it does not have the authority to remove him from power before the end of his term.
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