Colombia's ambassador to Uruguay returns over cocaine labs found on family estate
Colombia’s ambassador to Uruguay returns over cocaine labs found on family estate
by Adriaan Alsema February 27, 2020
Despite his “completely impeccable” pedigree, Colombia’s ambassador to Uruguay hired five defense attorneys after three cocaine labs were found on one of his properties.
Ambassador Fernando Sanclemente asked President Ivan Duque for six weeks off to “prepare his defense and be with his family,” weekly Semana reported on Wednesday, more than two weeks after the labs were discovered on the property in Guasca, Cundinamarca, that the Conservative Party dynasty diplomat shared with the Pivak family that owns the Dann hotel chain.
A lot of disappearing evidence
Two weeks after the police arrested five people at the lab, questions are piling up.
For one, Sanclemente was the director of Colombia’s civil aviation authority in 2007, the year that he and former President Alvaro Uribe received bribes from Sinaloa Cartel chief “El Chapo,” according to one witness.
In the same year, Sanclemente was allegedly granting dodgy contracts at Bogota‘s El Dorado Airport, the Inspector General’s Office said when opening investigations in 2010.
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