The director of the Police Judicial (Dijin), General Fernando Murillo Orrego, confirmed that, in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Attorney General’s Office, obtained the capture of 9 people -among them Joan Pau Daza Urbina, known as the ‘Emerald’ – dedicated to drug trafficking.
“His activities focused on storage, transportation, and marketing for drug trafficking organizations especially in the United States,” General Murillo said.
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In the same way, the director of the Dijin has pointed out that the coves were located in Guateque (Boyacá), the birthplace of alias el emagdes, head of the criminal network. Later they sent the drug to La Guajira.
“Then the narcotics were sent in flying boats to Central America and the United States,” the official stressed.
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General Murillo pointed out that after six months of research it was possible to locate and individualize each of those involved in Cúcuta, North of Santander, and the municipalities of San Luis Gaceno and Guateque (Boyacá), Aguachica (Cesar), Guamal (Meta) and Soacha and Cáqueza (Cundinamarca), where they were captured.
According to police, during the investigation process they confiscated 9 shipments of cocaine in different parts of the country, “which were transported in vehicles with double-bottomed compartments used to hide the alkaloid,” reads a press release on the catches.
‘The Emerald’ had contact with several owners of clandestine cocaine hydrochloride production labs and paid large sums of money for organized armed groups to provide protection to their cargoes.
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In addition, the researchers were able to establish that on several occasions the ’emerald’ traveled to Bogota “to hold meetings in different exchange offices located in a recognized commercial sector, where he gave instructions to his partners and also delivered and received money product of the sending of narcotics abroad “.
It had its own mine to extract emeralds
The ‘emerald’ acted as an emerald trader to justify its financial activities.
Judicial Police, Dijin
Joan Pau Daza Urbina was knowledgeable about the emerald business, hence his nickname; in addition it used the facade of retailer of these precious stones to give legality them to his narco activities.
‘The Emerald’ was the owner of a mine to extract this mineral in Chivor (Boyacá) and left it in evidence, after Dijin researchers will analyze documents and heritage information. He owned several high-end properties and vehicles in his name.
“Among them, vans with armor for their protection, in the same way, had for their defense several short and long-range firearms, with which he boasted in photographs,” police said.
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Extinction of the domain for more than $ 10 billion
His taste for emerald jewelry was his cover letter.
Judicial Police, Dijin
General Murillo noted that after forensic accounting analyzes it was determined that the man had increased his economic wealth without justification and that he also hid several of his assets using relatives or third parties, leaving them deeded in his name.
Due to this unjustified increase in assets, an investigation into the extinction of the domain was opened in parallel with the criminal proceedings, and as a result, “21 properties of the investigated were identified, assessed in more than 10 billion pesos, located in the departments of Boyacá, Meta, Cundinamarca and North of Santander, among which were a luxurious hotel, houses, estates and lots of large areas, which were immersed in the causes of extinction of the right of dominion “, pointed out the director of the Dijin.
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The detainees were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime for the purpose of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics and a bail control judge issued an insurance measure in prisons.
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