BOGOTA: Two subjects wanted in Brazil and Venezuela on drug charges were arrested in operations in southwestern and central Colombia, the army said.
Luis Alberto Obyrne was arrested in the southwestern city of Cali by army troops and Attorney General’s Office Technical Investigations Team, or CTI, agents, the army said in a statement.
Obyrne was “convicted by Brazilian justice” and was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice on drug charges, the army said.
The subject, whose nationality was not disclosed, “was the leader of a transnational criminal organization dedicated to trafficking psychoactive substances, principally cocaine,” the army said.
Obyrne allegedly “used routes through the continent,” including one in Peru, to smuggle cocaine into Brazil, the army said.
“Obyrne apparently posed as a tourist to enter and distribute cocaine in Brazil, an activity he carried out from the luxury hotels where he stayed,” the army said.
Army and CTI agents also arrested Rogelio Marulanda Marin, who is wanted in Venezuela for “allegedly committing the crimes of trafficking in drugs and psychotropic substances, and criminal conspiracy,” the army said.
Marulanda Marin was arrested in Ortega, a city in the central province of Tolima.
The suspect, whose nationality was not disclosed, apparently belonged to a criminal organization dedicated to the “production, transportation and distribution of cocaine” from Venezuela to Europe, the army said.
The transnational criminal organization presumably hid the cocaine in granite blocks sent by sea to Europe.
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