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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 09:16 PM Feb 2023

US prosecution evidence suggests DEA exported cocaine from Colombia


War crimes tribunal to press charges against Colombian officials
by Adriaan Alsema February 14, 2023

US Attorney Damian Williams from New York published evidence that confirms that DEA agents allegedly conspired to traffic cocaine from Colombia in 2017.

In a letter to New York judge Valerie Caproni, Williams alleged that a Colombian citizen without a criminal record, Armando Gomez, “attempted to import tons of cocaine into the United States” in 2017.

The same letter contained evidence suggesting that Williams’ own assistant, Jason Richman, helped fabricate these charges in a botched conspiracy to extradite former guerrilla leader “Jesus Santrich” in 2018.

. . .

DEA agent Brian Witek testified under oath that he coordinated the conspiracy to traffic the drugs to support the fabricated charges against Santrich “following the instructions” of “American law enforcement authorities.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/us-prosecutor-releases-evidence-suggesting-dea-exported-cocaine-from-colombia/
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Judi Lynn

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1. More from this horrendous story:
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 09:18 PM
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Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP discovered the conspiracy and called it “an attack against the national sovereignty” in 2019.

Santrich was assassinated by a member of Colombia’s military official in Venezuela in May 2021, effectively ending the New York investigation into the fabricated charges against the former guerrilla chief.

Despite the discovery of the DEA hoax and the death of Santrich, the criminal investigations against Gomez continued.

US prosecutors add evidence to DEA drug trafficking claims
Ironically, this revealed even more evidence that Gomez allegedly had been moving drugs for the DEA.
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