The three men, arrested in Bogota, were said to be of Lebanese and Jordanian descent
AL-JAZEERA Colombian authorities have arrested three men with alleged links to Hezbollah, a Lebanese organisation which runs an armed wing.
The men are among dozens of suspects held in Colombia and overseas
on charges of drugs trafficking and money laundering, the
attorney-general's office said.
The alleged criminal activity was for... Read Full Story
(AP) PANAMA CITY, Panama: Panama has extradited to the United States a suspected Colombian drug trafficker who also is wanted on murder charges. National Police spokesman Eduardo Lin Yuen says William Johnny Tamayo Hernandez is tied to Colombia's Norte del Valle drug cartel. He is reputed to be the right-hand man of Juan Carlos Ramirez, known as "Chupeta" or "Lollipop," the cartel's alleged money launderer who was arrested two months ago in Brazil and also has been extradited to the United... Read Full Story
By Rafael Luna Noguera for La Prensa - The supposed Colombian drug trafficker William Tamayo who was arrested in Obarrio last Thursday was in Panama trying to keep from being killed as part of a "settling of accounts" by the famous network of assassins known as Los Machos, loyal to the drug trafficker Wilber Varela, alias Jabón, who was killed in January of this year in Venezuela. This, according to sources in the Direction of Criminal Investigation (DIJIN) of the Colombian Police, who told... Read Full Story
Ramirez Abadia, known as "El Chupeta" (Lollipop) and long considered one of the world's major traffickers, is under U.S. indictment on racketeering, money laundering and murder charges. In one case, he is accused of ordering a hit team to kill a trafficker employed by his organization in Queens, N.Y. Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who had been imprisoned for money laundering in Brazil, was handed over to U.S. agents in the Amazonian city of Manaus and flown to New York, the Brazilian Justice... Read Full Story
accused is lawyer Fernando del Valle, who the prosecution considers to be the ‘brain’ behind the scheme which allegedly laundered money originating from drug trafficking, prostitution and tax fraud. Also suspected of involvement are two notaries, two female employees of Del Valle’s Marbella office and some clients, the majority of whom are foreigners. Del Valle spent six months in prison and was released in September 2005 on bail of 600,000 euros. The prosecution is requesting that he be... Read Full Story
