The Attorney General's Office reported that alias Camilo 40, who remains deprived of liberty for murders and displacement of social leaders, will have to answer to justice in the United States for drug trafficking.
Investigators of the Prosecutor's CTI notified Mario Mauricio Morán Guerrero, alias Camilo 40, of an extradition request against him filed by the Court of the Eastern District of the State of Texas (United States), which requires him on charges related to transnational drug trafficking.
Camilo 40 would be one of the top ringleaders of the Los Contadores criminal structure. According to the international request, it would have coordinated the outflow of tons of cocaine hydrochloride from the Colombian Pacific to the United States and some Central American countries.
Morán Guerrero is currently deprived of La Picota prison in Bogotá. In September 2021, he was captured in Tuluá (Valle del Cauca). At that time, the Prosecutor's Office linked him to a trial for the murder of the social leader and indigenous governor, Rodrigo Salazar Quiñones, on July 9, 2020, in Tumaco (Nariño). It was also attributed threats and other serious attacks against human rights defenders, peasant organizations and reincorporates in the south of the country.
In September 2021, when he was arrested, Defense Minister Diego Molano Aponte stated that “for information that allowed his capture, we had established a reward of 200 million pesos at the security council we held in Tumaco in February of this year.”
Camilo 40 was required by the competent authorities by court order for the crimes of concert to commit crimes, illicit enrichment of individuals, homicide and trafficking in the manufacture or carrying of firearms
Within the criminal record, there are the massacres of eight young people in Samaniego, Nariño, in August 2020, and of four young people, last February, in rural Tumaco, due to armed confrontations.
In addition, he is allegedly responsible for the indiscriminate installation of explosive devices on road roads in the district of Llorente to prevent access to the population, and for the displacement of inhabitants in the Sabaleta village, in the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño, because of the clashes against the Oliver Sinisterra structure, of the dissidents of the FARC, last July.
With the arrest of this subject, the expansion of the Gao-R is prevented in the department of Nariño, where he maintained criminal control of the strategic mobility corridors towards the Pacific coast and affects finances because he was in charge of marketing cocaine hydrochloride over the western mountain range.
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