2024-02-14 20:04:24
Since he returned from serving a sentence in a Florida prison, José Stiven Berrío Zorrilla assured those close to him that he no longer had anything to do with the assembly and shipments of narcosubmersibles linked to mafia structures in the Valley that earned him a sentence of several years. prison in the United States.
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At just 38 years of age, he appeared as the sole shareholder of the companies Cristorey Cycling and the Cristorey Group, created with a capital of 150 million pesos, even before DEA agents began to investigate him for his role in sending several tons of high purity cocaine.
The armored Prado
The former boss traveled in an armored Prado truck.
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However, authorities assure that Berrío Zorrilla was once once more in the spotlight of at least one investigation that took on greater relevance this Wednesday, February 14, following several hitmen chased him for several minutes from Sabaneta to Envigado in a car and a motorcycle to shoot him down.
EL TIEMPO investigated and established that the two commercial establishments linked to Berrío Zorrilla are dedicated to a wide range of activities.
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They range from the trade in clothing and sporting goods, management consulting activities, wholesale trade in clothing to road freight transportation. The first of them was opened in October 2010 and is based in Cali and the second, created in June 2023, was registered in Medellín.
But what had caught the attention of the authorities was a trip that Berrío Zorrilla made on September 19, 2023 from Medellín to Cali in a white 2019 model Prado armored truck.
The fine and the owner’s version
The former capo was known as the lord of the semi-submersibles.
The trip lasted regarding 9 days and the extradited person ended up detained by traffic agents who imposed a fine on him.
What caught the attention of the authorities is that the luxurious armored truck that the former boss was using was for sale in an exclusive dealership in Medellín, where he also moved.
“We realized that the man of the semi-submersibles, as they called him, began to move around Palmira, Cali, Bogotá and Medellín in different cars that did not belong to him,” an investigator told this newspaper.
EL TIEMPO located the owner of the armored Toyota, who declared himself surprised that the man who was fined for driving his truck from Medellín to Cali is the same one who was murdered in Envigado.
A fine imposed by a Cali Transit agent is one of the clues to the strange movement of the former boss from Medellín to Cali.
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“That truck is in Medellín, I delivered it to a dealership in September of last year for sale and I realized that they moved it because I received a fine,” said the owner of the truck, owner of several restaurants in Cali in dialogue with this diary.
And he added: “The person in charge of selling the vehicle told me that he had given it to a person interested in comparing it for a road test that lasted 9 days. After that episode I put a GPS on the truck so that it would not be followed.” moving, I don’t know any Mr. Berrío Zorrilla”
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Berrío Zorrilla’s sentimental partner, who survived the attack, and the episode with the truck, are two key episodes that crime investigators follow.
Authorities assure that his background does not rule out that it is a settling of scores. Another clue that is being followed is the owner of the vehicle in which the former boss was traveling.
Operation ‘Under the Sea’
Berrío Zorrilla was extradited to the United States.
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EL TIEMPO learned of the file once morest the victim in which it is stated that he and 22 other people were accused in 2011 for their alleged participation in a drug trafficking organization that built and used fully submersible and semi-submersible submarines to transport cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and Central America, with final destination to the United States
Furthermore, for federal agents, the criminal group of which the victim was a part sought to “fill the power vacuum left by the fall of the Norte Valle Cartel and the dissolution of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).”
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In fact, investigators link Berrío Zorrilla with a structure called ‘Los Mahecha’, led by an heir of former bosses Miguel and Gilberto Rodríguez, who was a partner of drug traffickers such as Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha.
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