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Aldana-Gil managed cocaine smuggling logistics from Cali, bribing airport staff and altering manifests to load drugs onto planes.

“There’s an unfortunate trend in the region where laws are really good on paper, but they’re not fully put into practice,” said Julia Yansura of the FACT Coalition.

The charges against his son result from an investigation that the President himself called for.

Colombia now has alleged Russian spies in custody along with Colombian collaborators who have already pled guilty.

U.S. District Court Judge Charlene Honeywell expressed disgust with the DEA for its failings and said other agents corrupted by "the allure of easy money" also needed to be investigated.

Colombian President Iván Duque lauded the extradition of Saab, calling it a “triumph in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption led by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”

Prosecutors charged Rico with money laundering, to which he pled not guilty. A judge ordered Rico, the truck and the cash held pending trial.

US DEA Special Agent José Ismael Irizarry and his wife Nathalia Gomez Irizarry pled guilty to all charges in a mammoth scheme to steal government funds, drug proceeds and launder money. The Irizarrys apparently are related to the notorious Ambuila crime family of Cali, Colombia.

The U.S. DEA reportedly has wiretap evidence implicating José Leonidas Bustos, Francisco Javier Ricaurte, and Camilo Tarquino in a bribery scandal.