Known by the alias of “La Negra”, she would have been in charge of laundering assets and making links with international criminal organizations to send cocaine.
Colombia extradited on Friday Nini Johana Úsuga David, the sister of the alias “Otoniel”, who was the top leader of the Clan del Golfo, to answer for crimes related to drug trafficking in the United States.
Nini Johana, 40, is requested to appear in a trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, accused of allegedly associating with other people to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine knowing that it would be imported illegally to that country.
Known by the alias of “La Negra”, she would have been in charge of laundering assets of the Clan del Golfo and making links with international criminal organizations to send cocaine, according to Colombian authorities.
She was captured in March 2021 in Colombia following being wanted with an Interpol red circular and since then she has been awaiting her extradition, endorsed in April 2022 by the Colombian Supreme Court.
According to the extradition request from the United States sent to the Colombian court, Nini Johana received direct orders from her brother Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, the leader of Los Urabeños, a cartel that was later called Clan del Golfo, and which collected “taxes” for the cocaine shipments leaving the Gulf of Urabá, in northwestern Colombia, which borders Panama.
A cooperating defendant who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking crimes in the United States informed investigators that Nini Johana controlled the storage of “Otoniel’s” money and was in charge of buying the properties in her name.
Also that “he received all the profits from the cocaine shipments and/or the taxes paid for the cocaine shipments.”
With “Otoniel” the Clan del Golfo became very powerful in Colombia, with more than 3,500 members and the ability to traffic 20 tons of cocaine per month. It is a family structure, the Colombian authorities have captured 17 of their relatives and killed three more.
“Otoniel”, the most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia, was extradited in May this year to the United States, where he pleaded not guilty to drug charges.
He was captured in October 2021 in the mountains of the northwest of the country, where he always had his criminal actions, in a military operation that deployed more than 500 men.
Along with Nini Johana, six other people were extradited on Friday on the plane of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English).
Among them, two former members of the extinct guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who failed to comply with the peace agreement signed with the State in 2016.
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