Who is alias Boliqueso, the drug trafficker who will be prosecuted by the District Court of New York

For about seven years, the New York Court (United States), was looking for Eduard Fernando Giraldo, alias Boliqueso, one of the most important drug traffickers within the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), also known as the Gulf Clan. Finally, the criminal was captured on April 20 and the US authorities emphasize that they will prosecute him for international conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

A document from the New York Court, which was leaked after the announcement of the capture of alias Boliqueso, and which dates back to 2015, details the sum of allegations against the drug trafficker revealed by the United States Department of Justice.

According to the document, between May 2011 and December 2014, alias Boliqueso and his accomplices would have distributed cocaine throughout the continent and eventually try to enter it into the United States.

According to the court, the criminal intended to traffic five kilograms of cocaine and more than one substance containing the narcotic drug.

It should be noted that the criminal would be one of the key links of the Gulf Clan. The man committed crimes mainly from Mexico, where he was captured. According to authorities, alias Boliqueso operated from Acapulco, where several luxury cars and apartments were detected.

The arrest of alias Boliqueso took place on Avenida División del Norte, in the El Rosario neighborhood, in the Coyoacán mayor's office, where SSC uniformed personnel implemented fixed and mobile surveillance because, according to various investigations, there was a foreign person possibly linked to a Colombian criminal group.

According to the Mexican authorities' statement, “in a joint deployment, SSC personnel and INAMI personnel arrested a 35-year-old man, a Colombian citizen, who, unable to verify his legal stay in the country, was transferred to Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to clarify his legal status and for the purpose of extradition to Colombia”.

After the capture of alias Boliqueso was known, the United States announced that it will order the confiscation of any property of the criminal that he would have used to commit or facilitate the commission of the aforementioned crime.

The criminal history of alias Boliqueso dates back 15 years and it would have started operating with different Colombian drug cartels, especially in the west of the country. According to the Colombian National Police, the prisoner committed a crime with alias Jabón, the Comba brothers, Javier Antonio and Luis Enrique Calle Serna.

At this time, in addition to the delivery of drugs, he is credited with the murder of several people, including Maria del Socorro Patiño de Moreno, 81 years old, on June 5, 2015, in the Uribe de Yumbo neighborhood (Valle del Cauca). Likewise, the murder of INPEC official, Julián Bernardo Tacuma Cortés, reported missing since June 6, 2015.

Because of his record, alias Boliqueso was captured for the first time in Brazil, in April 2016. At that time, by decision of a judge, he was released.

Now, with the recapture, the countries with which the criminal has to settle accounts are expected to start drawing a route for the criminal to pay. The New York Court is already processing the judicialization of the former head of the Gulf Clan. In addition, the Colombian authorities are also reviewing the crimes for which it would have to respond in the country.

“The Court has reiterated that in order to establish whether the conduct attributed to the requested person in the requesting country is considered a crime in Colombia, a comparison must be made between the norms that underpin unionization, with those of internal order to establish whether they also reflect the behaviors contained in each of the charges”, said the Supreme Court of Justice.

KEEP READING: