The other prisoners from La Picota who are planning to escape and are in the sights of the authorities

A few days ago, drug trafficker Juan Larison Castro Estupiñan, alias' Matamba ', made news again after it was confirmed that he had escaped from La Picota Prison, located in the city of Bogotá. After finding that agents of INPEC had participated in the process and that the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, requested an investigation and would announce reforms within the prison institution, the United States authorities who had asked the second in command of the Gulf Clan for extradition stated that a newly extradited said that he was asked for 2 billion pesos to open the doors of La Picota.

The authorities of the two countries interested in the recapture of 'Matamba' asked to make a mapping and increase the security of the cells where prisoners with the greatest risk of flight or classified as high-profile are located. Among that list, as mentioned by El Tiempo, are: Juan José Valencia Zuluaga, alias Falcón or 'Andrea', recognized for his car collection and having managed the profile of an entrepreneur while blocking money from the mafia; Carlos Mahecha, known as 'the doctor', anesthesiologist and market investor real estate in the U.S. The US government that achieved recognition, and ended up defrauding dozens of unsuspecting people, including Colombians, Brazilians and Ecuadorians; Ómar Ambuila, a former DIAN official, requested for extradition by the United States for money laundering; and Jorge Eliécer Castaño Toro, alias Plastico, designated chief of finance of the 'Gulf clan' in Urabá.

The above-mentioned criminals have several characteristics in common besides their high profile and that is that in recent months they have made various excuses not to be moved to the high security cells, which would guarantee a lower risk of escape, for example, alias Falcón, he took out the excuse as did his partner Emilio Tapias from being contaminated with covid-19 so as not to be moved from cell.

Authorities issue Interpol red circular against alias' Matamba ': has arrest warrant in force in 196 countries

The Police reported that following the request made to the Interpol Central Office in Lyon, France, a red circular was issued against the aforementioned offender. This document allows the accused criminal to have an active international arrest warrant in force in 196 countries.

By alias' Matamba 'the national authorities are offering a reward of 2 billion pesos. The now fugitive from justice has under his name crimes of kidnapping, torture, homicide in a protected person, forced displacement and concert to commit crime. In response to the news, the Director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, stated that “there is a joint work with the police forces of South America that are Colombia's partners in the fight against drug trafficking, in order to locate it.”

“The search is progressing with a special team of 60 investigators from the Anti-Narcotics Directorate, who had already captured this dangerous criminal in May last year when he was celebrating his birthday in Bucaramanga (...) with the liaison officer of the Colombian Police in Lyon, we have told him so that with Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Panama they are alert to the possible displacement of this criminal to those countries, we have also alerted the services of the border nations to this situation,” added the director general.

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