It was located in the city of Medellín, although it operated in Acandí, a municipality in the Chocoano Caribbean.
The Colombian authorities arrested Óscar Moreno Ricardo, who is supposedly known as the “king of the semi-submersibles” drug traffickers, and is, presumably, one of those most responsible for the release of cocaine hydrochloride through this means of transport in the Pacific Colombian.
Moreno, also known as alias “Cachano” or “El viejo”, was located in the city of Medellín, although he was working in Acandí, a municipality in the Chocoano Caribbean, according to the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement this Saturday.
He was detained in an operation by the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office, the Army and the Police with the support of the US DEA, and has an extradiction order to the United States on charges related to drug trafficking.
According to the Texas district court, which requests it, Moreno began in drug trafficking activities in 2005 as a speedboat pilot, after which he had contacts with Mexican cartels, such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación, and armed groups in Colombia, such as the Clan del Golfo or the ELN, and “assumed the logistics and maritime transport of cocaine shipments abroad,” the Prosecutor’s Office stressed.
For five years it has been dedicated to the construction of semi-submersibles, a method of transporting drug trafficking that is very difficult to detect and that has been improving since the last century, and, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, it became the main articulator of this activity.
“The evidence indicates that, in these artifacts, it moved up to five tons of cocaine hydrochloride to Central American countries,” stressed the director of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office, Alberto Acevedo. (I)
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