The Colombian police captured this Monday a Néstor Tarazona Enciso, Head of a criminal network in the service of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, In the city of Pereira, capital of the department of Risaralda (center).
Tarazona Enciso is accused of money laundering (money laundering) and illicit enrichment of individuals, and has been investigated as responsible for setting up a financial company to launder money. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
For these activities, he was also included in the Clinton list of the United States Treasury Department.
“This person was convicted twice for drug trafficking crimes in the US and returned to the country in 1995 to form two companies for the purpose of carrying out fictitious maneuvers that led to the laundering of assets,” confirmed the Colombian Police in a communiqué.
According to the information, Tarazona remained anonymous and worked as a breeder of horses and exotic birds, and it is estimated that he illegally increased his assets by more than 17 billion pesos (more than 4,460,000 of dollars today) since 1999.
“After the capture of ‘Chapo’ Guzmán in 2014, he suspended business with the Sinaloa cartel and offered his services to the Jalisco New Generation cartel and became a partner of Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo ‘Ghost Memo’,” the police added.
“Ghost Memo,” a powerful drug dealer who for decades managed to remain anonymous and evade justice while allegedly trafficking tons of cocaine, was captured by police in Bogota last June in Bogota.
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