Colombian paramilitary financier says Uribe extradited him to keep quiet about regime’s paramilitary

Colombian paramilitary financier says Uribe extradited him to keep quiet about regime’s paramilitary ties
Jun 11, 2014 posted by Nicolas Bedoya


[font size=1]Juan Carlos el "Tuso" Sierra (Photo: Semana) [/font]

A former Colombian drug trafficker and paramilitary financier declared that former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe extradited him to the US to shut him up about disclosing information about high-ranking officials with paramilitary ties, according to an interview with W Radio.

In an exclusive interview with Colombia’s W Radio, Juan Carlos Sierra, alias “El Tuso,” said that he was double-crossed by Uribe and was extradited by his administration in order to silence him from speaking-out about the regime’s alleged paramilitary ties.

“I was extradited to not tell the truth,” said Sierra, and since then his case has been politicized.

In the interview, Sierra declared that several companies, businessmen, politicians, and military officials were intimately involved and supportive of the paramilitaries.

Sierra was clearly apprehensive and refused to name specific companies and businessmen because of “limits to what he could say,” but he did mention, ”We met many people from the Armed Forces of which we were in contact and received help in exchange for money.”

More:
http://colombiareports.co/paramilitary-financier-says-uribe-extradited-keep-quiet/

(My emphasis.)