Businessman linking Uribe to death squad released from jail despite admitting to drug trafficking
Businessman linking Uribe to death squad released from jail despite admitting to drug trafficking
by Adriaan Alsema January 2, 2019
A notoriously violent neighbor and former business partner of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe has been released from jail despite admitting to drug trafficking charges, local media reported Wednesday.
Santiago Gallon was arrested in the border city of Cucuta last year after British intelligence agencies accused him of trafficking at least five tons of cocaine to Europe and the United States.
Gallon admitted to the charges but was released on Monday and allowed to be tried in liberty after a series of irregularities and delays in the investigation carried out by the prosecution office in Medellin.
Uribe’s neighbor and former business partner was first convicted and imprisoned in 1994 for ordering the assassination of football player Andres Escobar, but was later absolved after his bodyguard took the blame.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-businessman-linking-uribe-to-death-squad-released-from-jail-despite-admitting-to-drug-trafficking/
LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142234876
By tossing him out into public right now, the Uribe-puppet President has signed this man's death warrant. He'll be gone in no time at all, just like one of his own earlier victims.
