It’s official: the feared Colombian drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Úsuga Davidalias Othnielwill plead guilty to his crimes in the sale of narcotics when he directed the criminal structure of the gulf clan. The date of these declarations will be Wednesday, January 25.
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The statement of one of the bloodiest criminals in Colombia will be given before a New York courtUnited States, the country in which he is serving part of his sentence, in extradition, since mid-2022. There, according to what the judge announced Dora Lizette Irizarry, Otoniel will accept his guilt for the aforementioned crimes.
It must be remembered that Irizarry is the attorney for the drug case and, through a statement that he revealed in the last hours, the criminal is expected to change his perception, because, at the beginning of May of last year, he denied having been responsible for the crimes for which he is imprisoned in American soil.
In the document issued by the jurist, it is evident that the colombian kingpin He is willing to acknowledge that he was the architect of leading some of the most powerful and millionaire drug processes in the history of drug trade both in Colombia and in other countries on the American continent.
Prosecutor Barbosa says that he will not go down “in history as the one who removed arrest warrants from criminals”
Once again he refused to lift the arrest warrants against total peace dealers belonging to the ‘Clan del Golfo’ and ‘Los Pachenca’
The text not only has the signature of Othniel, but also of his legal defense. There, the US authorities not only accuse him of being the head of “an ongoing criminal enterprise” between 2003 and October 2021, but also of being aware that the drug would reach the United States for illegal purposes.
“-He is responsible for- participating in an international conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine, knowingly and with the intention that the drugs would be illegally imported into the United States,” reads the text revealed by Judge Irizarry.
According to the versions, the admission of guilt of the former head of the Gulf clan will be so that, among other things, he does not have to appear before a oral trial and avoid that your possible conviction of 60 years, for drug trafficking, will be established in the coming months.
Margarita Cabello supported the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office and assured that: “peace cannot be above the Constitution”
The request to suspend the arrest warrants against members of the Clan del Golfo and the Pachencas was made by President Gustavo Petro within the framework of the total peace program
This number of months was stipulated in the extradition treaties that they signed. the Colombian and US governments where the protocols are defined to make determinations on criminals who arrive in the North American country to comply with their intramural sentences.
At the hearing, Otoniel is expected to acknowledge that he commanded and led the aforementioned criminal structure to send cocaine to the United States illegally. In fact, if this happens, the version that the individual delivered on May 5 in that country, where he declared himself not guilty for this crime.
According to the document, the penalty could be a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment, so it is expected that another of the reasons that would lead the drug trafficker to make that decision is to reduce his stay in jail. In his statement, Otoniel will acknowledge that “knowingly and deliberately joined, conspired, associated and agreed with persons possessing with the intent to distribute a controlled substance on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”, the text says.
The coca that the former leader of the Clan del Golfo, also called Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC)sent to the United States dating between April 2009 and October 2021, dates on which the Colombian authorities, as well as those of the nation where he is extradited, followed his lead to apprehend him and put him in jail to pay for his crimes .
“I, Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, accused, have been informed that an (information of accusation – complaint) is pending against me for the cause designated above. I wish to plead guilty to the offense chargedto consent to the disposition of the case in the Eastern District of New York in which I, Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, (under arrest and detainee) and waive the trial in the district previously stated”, says another of the sections of the document.
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