After the media revealed a video in which it is seen that a person in uniform of the Police helped load a plane that in May was discovered with nearly 500 pounds of cocaine in it Sant Andreu, el Director of Anti-Narcotics of the National Police, General Herman Bustamante, referred to the case.
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The cargo of the plane was on May 23, the institution reported, at Guaymaral Airport, in Bogota.
This aircraft left the capital with 446 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride and landed at Providencia airport, where the drug was confiscated and two people were initially arrested.
General Bustamante commented that hand in hand with the Prosecutor’s Office they have advanced the investigation of the facts, including the video that is circulating, which was part of the evidence presented at the concentrated hearings of this case.
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“From the first moment that the police obtained the confiscation, the capture of two people and the immobilization of an aircraft, we began collecting the material evidence, in conjunction with the Public Prosecutor’s Office. It is the National Police itself that, after reviewing 80 hours of video, provides the video that was presented in the concentrated hearings and that is circulating, where there is possibly the presence of a uniformed, this will be determined by the judicial investigation that we are developing “, mentioned the director of Antinarcotics.
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He added that in this process an officer of the institution was already captured “and we will continue advanced investigative work with the support of the DEA to obtain the extradition orders of all those involved who are part of the criminal structure,” he said. conclude the general.
In May, when the aircraft landed in Providencia and the drug was found, Juan Camilo Cadena Botero and Harold Darío Rivera Toledo, who were part of the crew of the C-90 plane, were captured on the spot. of registration number N722KR, in which the cocaine was confiscated. Both remain with insurance measure.
For his part, in July the captain of the National Police was captured Jorge Isaac Aguilar García, who would have participated in the shipment of the drug to the island of Providence, in a small plane tie to the husband of the recognized comedian Alejandra Azcárate.
According to the evidence, Captain Aguilar had contacted the security staff of the airport El Embrujo, Providencia and Santa Catalina, to allow the passage of the boxes, disguised as humanitarian aid, Which arrived on the plane on May 23 this year.
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