Ex-Medellin prosecutor convicted of aiding drug lord

Ex-Medellin prosecutor convicted of aiding drug lord
Sep 23, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin

Guillermo Valencia

Colombia’s Supreme Court has found Medellin’s former chief prosecutor guilty of aiding a head of the now-defunct Norte del Valle drug cartel, according to local media.

Guillermo Valencia, currently serving time for his ties to drug traffickers belonging to “Los Urabeños,” was convicted of omission and concealment in a case against Juan Carlos Abadia, alias “Chupeta.”

Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper reported Monday that the courts found that Valencia Cossio had received charges against Chupeta, but had decided not to process them. In addition, some of the evidence submitted subsequently disappeared.

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Guillermo is the brother of Fabio Valencia, the former Justice Minister under Alvaro Uribe’s administration
The Valencia family is a powerful and controversial political clan from Medellin with strong ties to the Uribe family.

Fabio Valencia came under fire while serving under Uribe because his brother Guillermo’s ties to drug lords, though he did not resign, claiming he never knew of his brother’s criminal activity.

http://colombiareports.co/ex-medellin-prosecutor-convicted-of-aiding-drug-lord/

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Juan Carlos Abadia [/center]
Colombian Drug Lord Vanishes After Conviction… in the US!

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Daniel Hopsicker

A major Colombian drug trafficker who willingly sought extradition to the United States—even offering a $40 million bribe to officials in Brazil to send him to the US—apparently knew what he was doing. After being extradited and convicted in Federal Court in New York of felony drug charges that could have put him in jail for life, he disappeared.

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His name is Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia (nickname: Lollipop). He's a figure in the recent scandal over the President of Costa Rica’s use of a drug plane belonging to Gabriel Morales Fallon, who was identified as one of his former lieutenants.

Juan Carlos Abadia's extradition to the US from Brazil in 2008 received major media coverage.The DEA was calling him the biggest drug cartel boss since Pablo Escobar. They say he led the world’s biggest drug cartel, exporting more than 500 tons of cocaine—worth in excess of $10 billion—just to the United States alone.

His name was in the news again several months later, when he asked (citing claustrophobia) to be placed in a bigger detention cell while awaiting trial in New York. But when he pled guilty in March of 2010 to felony counts of drug trafficking and racketeering, not one newspaper in America carried the story. His conviction went completely unreported. The DEA didn't didn’t even issue a press release.

More:
http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/08/30/colombian-drug-lord-vanishes-after-conviction-in-the-u-s/

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Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia

Other names
Chupeta, Cien,
Don Augusto,
El Patron,
Gustavo Ortiz,
Charlie Pareja

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Wikipedia:

Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía (Alias "Chupeta&quot (born February 16, 1963 in Palmira, Colombia) is a drug trafficker who, until his capture, was one of the leaders of the North Valley Cartel (Norte del Valle Cartel), who was wanted on drug smuggling, murder and RICO charges in the United States of America. In addition to the trafficking of cocaine, it is believed Abadia also participated in money laundering and trafficking of heroin. Through Abadias' illegal enterprise, he has amassed a fortune estimated at $1.8 billion by the US Department of State. He has been cited as "... one of the most powerful and most elusive drug traffickers in Colombia" by Adam J. Szubin, Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).[1][2][3][4]

On August 7, 2007 Ramírez Abadía was arrested in São Paulo, Brazil, in an exclusive area called Aldeia da Serra.[5][6] On March 13, 2008, the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil granted his extradition to the United States.[7] "Chupeta" was extradited to the United States on Friday, August 22, 2008.[8]

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Ram%C3%ADrez_Abad%C3%ADa