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Bogota — Colombia has expelled the sisters of Dylo Antonio Usaga, the leader of the drug cartel known as Otoniel, the leader of the drug cartel charged with drug trafficking, to the United States on Friday, police said.
Colombian police said they were responsible for handling Cran del Golfo's drug money laundering and international relations with cartels in other countries such as Mexico and helped coordinate drug shipments. Condemns 39-year-old Nini Johanna Usaga.
Her brother, accused of being the chief of Clan del Golfo, was handed over in the United States in early May on suspicion of drug trafficking. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court in New York.
Authorities say 50-year-old Othniel is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of members of Colombian security forces.
The other six were handed over with Nini Johanna Usaga to face the crime of drug trafficking.
In 1991, the surrender was abolished in Colombia, but Congress revived it only six years later. It is one of the main tools in Colombia's arsenal to combat drug trafficking.
According to Colombian officials, Othniel, who trafficked 180 to 200 tonnes of cocaine annually, was detained in Antioch last October.
Cran del Golfo, with more than 1,200 fighters, according to security forces, launched a so-called "armed strike" to protest the surrender of Othniel, in the process of swathing Colombia. I was paralyzed.
Drug trafficking and the war on drugs are the main causes of Colombia's armed conflict and the country's Truth Commission was established as part of the 2016 peace agreement with the currently demobilized FARC guerrillas. Report from was released this week. (Report by Luis Jaime Acosta, written by Oliver Griffin, edited by Grant McCool)
