The United States Embassy in Colombia and the Colombian Police reported on Thursday that they will offer a total of 12 million dollars for the capture of three leaders of the transnational criminal organization ‘Aragua Train‘.
This was explained by the director of the Colombian Police, General William Salamanca, together with the chargé d’affaires of the United States embassy in Colombia, Francisco Palmieri, at a press conference in Bogotá.
“Criminals are always looking for a place to take refuge, and the police in Latin America have international cooperation operations to capture the subjects wherever they are, but we still have no information on whether these leaders are in Colombia.“, Salamanca explained.
The three heads of the organization are: Giovanny San Vicente, alias ‘Giovanny’; Yohan Jose Romero, alias ‘Johan Petrica’ and Hector Guerrero Flores, alias ‘Niño Guerrero’for which rewards of three, four and five million dollars are offered, respectively.
Palmieri added that “In recent years, the Aragua Train has become an organization that contributes to fear and confusion, and is an obstacle for the Colombian and American population.”.
In recent days, the Colombian Police captured alias ‘Salomon‘, one of the leaders of the gang in Bogotá and one of the founders of the group, alias ‘Larry Changa’as well as a person posing as a barber.
“These arrests are added to the 79 that the Police have carried out together with the Prosecutor’s Office“, Salamanca added.
The transnational criminal organization of Aragua Train It originated in Venezuelan prisons and is considered the most powerful gang in the country, which has expanded since 2018 to other countries on the continent along the route followed by Venezuelans.
Now, it operates in several cities in Peru, Chili and Colombiawhere he carries out extortions and kidnappings, among other crimes, and is in charge of illegal businesses such as micro-trafficking.
On the other hand, in the United States, “The criminal rewards program reveals that this group is in all the countries of the hemisphere (…) little by little, we are attacking this criminal group”.
It is therefore expected that an attack plan against the organised group will be announced in Washington on Thursday.
Specifically, the three leaders are wanted for the crimes of conspiracy to commit transnational organized crime, drug and human trafficking, and money laundering.
Source: Gestion
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