On 22 November 2020, the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police of Colombia announced the capture of Dominican citizen Jonathan Perez Santana, who is accused of a criminal scheme for the export of cocaine. The group was said to collect the drugs near the border with Ecuador and then move the cargo to Cali and Bogotá. Later, the drugs were sent to Buenaventura, the departure point for Central America, the United States and Europe.
Pérez Santana, alias Jonathan, was captured in judicial proceedings held in Barranquilla. Simultaneously, the Colombian authorities arrested six of his alleged accomplices in Envigado and Medellín (Antioquia), and Cali (Valle del Cauca).
As reported, Perez Santana is one of the most wanted drug traffickers by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is associated with numerous deaths linked to criminal groups. He has been accused of murdering several drug traffickers in rival gangs.
Perez Santana is the second major drug-trafficking defendant to be arrested in Colombia. At the end of 2019, César Emilio Peralta (César el Abusador) was arrested in Cartagena, and was accused of being one of the country’s main drug traffickers at the time of his arrest.
The media points out that both Perez Santana and Peralta have in common their backing of urban musicians that they used to launder part of their assets from drug trafficking.
Jonathan Perez Santana was wanted since 2011 for murder and drug trafficking. In 2019 he survived an attack by one of his partners.
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25 November 2020