on the night of this Tuesday August 30, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego, signed the first eight extradition orders to the United Statesfor various matters, among which the drug trafficking crime.
On the extraditable list is Alcevis Enrique Ortiz Luquez, Frank Hernán Álvarez Espinel, José Luis Pino Leal, Rómulo Ramírez Rodríguez, Jhon Sebastián Vallejo Rueda, Luis Alexander Barrera Forero, Andrés Felipe Restrepo Sánchez and Alejandro Echeverry Cano.
What surprised many is that The brother of the senator of the Historical Pact Piedad Córdoba, Álvaro Córdoba, was not among those extraditable.whom the United States court accused of having entered that country five kilos of cocaine and illegal possession of weapons, in addition to allegedly having links with the FARC dissidents.
On why the president Gustavo Petro did not sign the extradition order for Álvaro Córdobathe new Justice Minister Nestor Osunaanswered.
“It is in process, at this moment it is in my office. The file is not here in the Palace of Nariño”. the Minister of Justice pointed out regarding the extradition order for Álvaro Córdoba.
And it is that on the part of the defense of the brother of the senator of the Historical Pact, President Gustavo Petro is expected to look closely at the case.
Lawyer Ludy Valentina Santiago, who belongs to the defense group in this case once morest Álvaro Córdoba, told El Tiempo (ET) that she hopes the new Ministry of Justice will review the extradition request.
The defense argues the request for review of the case in that “in the extradition treaty and the legality of the acts that have been deployed by undercover agents, and in the face of the law that, according to the Constitution, would govern those acts.”
Another of the arguments of the defense of the brother of Senator Piedad Córdoba is that “because the procedures that have been carried out, at the discretion of the work team, violate the principle of legality because even when the extradition treaty is in force, This cannot be applied because there is no law that incorporates it into the internal legal system,” he told ET.
Regarding extradition, President Gustavo Petro has indicated that he thinks that those who provide truth and reparation to the State and to the victims should not be extradited, something that might be applicable in the case of Álvaro Córdoba.
Álvaro Fredy Córdoba Ruiz, brother of the former senator and congressional candidate for the Historical Pact, Piedad Córdoba, was detained on the night of Thursday, February 3. He was detained by agents of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN) of the National Police. from Colombia. Along with him, two other people were captured, Álvaro Alonso Jaramillo and Libia Amanda Palacio, alias Amanda.
The operation that was baptized by the authorities as Operation Coral and was carried out in the city of Medellín. Now those captured are accused of the alleged crime of being logistical support for the ‘Gentil Duarte’ dissidents that are located in southern Colombia and for alleged cocaine trafficking to the United States. A court in the Southern District of New York was the one that made the request for his capture.
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